ELECTION 

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CITY  AND  COUNTY  OF  NEW  YOKK. 


(Passed  May  l<tth,  1872.) 
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201  &  203  WILLIAM  STREET. 
1873. 


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Chapter  675. 

An  Act  in  relation  to  elections  in  the  city  and 
county  of  New  York,  and  to  provide  for  as- 
certaining, by  proper  proofs,  the  citizens  who 
shall  be  entitled  to  the  right  of  suffrage  thereat. 

Passed  May  14th,  1872  ;    three-fifths  being  present. 


The  People  of  the  State  of  New  York,  represented  in 
Senate  and  Assembly,  do  enact  as  follows  : 

Section  1.  Hereafter,  all  officers  to  be  elected  by 
the  people,  in  the  city  and  county  of  New  York,  shall  aii  officers 

ii  i  i      !       ■         .      at  i  elected  in  No- 

be  chosen  at  the  general  election  m  .November,  except  vember except, 

in  cases  where  other  elections  may  be  authorized  by 

-  law. 


Sec.  2.  The  days  upon  which  the  general  or  local 
elections  shall  hereafter  be  held  in  the  city  and  county 
of  New  York  shall,  for  all  purposes  whatever,  as  re- 
gards the  presenting  for  payment  or  acceptance,  and  of  g^fggjjg^ 
the  protesting  and  giving  notice  of  the  dishonor  of  bills 
of  exchange,  bank-checks,  and  promissory  notes,  made 
after  the  passage  of  this  act,  be  treated  and  considered 
as  is  the  first  day  of  the  week,  commonly  called  Sun- 
day. 


Sec  3.  [Amended  by  chap.  823  of  the  Laws  of  1873, 
so  as  to  read  as  follows  ;]  At  elections  hereafter  to  be 
held  in  the  city  and  county  of  New  York,  the  boxes  to  be 
used  in  receiving  the  ballots  thereat  shall  be  marked  and 
numbered  successively  as  follows :  Number  one,  "  Presi- 
dent;" number  two,  "General;"  number  three,  "Con- 
gress ;  "  number  four,  "  Senator  ;  "  number  five,  "  As- 
sembly ;  "  number  six,  u  City  ;  "  number  seven,  "  Jus- 


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tices."    And  at  every  election  hereafter  to  be  lield  m  said 
ftShed1^       city  and  comity  such  number  of  boxes,  marked  as  afore- 
said, shall  be  furnished,  as  may  be  required  by  law,  to  re- 
ceive the  ballots  to  be  used  at  such  election. 


Ballot  for  pres- 
ident and  vice- 
president. 


Form  of. 


How  folded  and 
indorsed. 


Names  of  city 
and  county  . 
officers  except, 
etc.,  to  be  on 
one  ballot  to 
designate  name 
and  office. 


How  folded. 
How  indorsed. 


Separate  ballots 
for  rep.  in 
congress. 


To  designate 
name,  office, 
and  district. 

How  folded. 
How  indorsed. 


Where  de- 
posited . 


Separate  ballot 
for  senator. 

To  designate 
name,  office, 
and  district. 

How  folded. 

How  indorsed. 

Where  deposited. 

Sep.iratc  bnllot. 
for  member  of 
Assembly,  to 
designate  name, 
offiee,  and  dis- 
trict. 


How  folded. 
How  indorsed. 

Where  deposited. 

Ballot  for  alder- 
men elected  hy 
8  Jiate  district*. 


Sec.  4.  [Amended  ly  chap.  823  of  the  Laws  of  1873, 
so  as  to  read  as  follows  ;]  The  ballot  for  electors  of  presi- 
dent aud  vice-president  shall  be  the  same  as  now  pre- 
scribed by  law,  and,  when  folded,  shall  be  indorsed  or  show 
on  the  outside  the  words  "  President,  number  one,"  and  be 
deposited  in  box  number  one.  All  other  officers  in  whose 
election  all  the  voters  of  said  city  and  county  alike  partici- 
pate, except  those  herein  designated  to  be  voted  for  on 
separate  ballots,  shall  be  voted  for  upon  one  ballot,  which, 
upon  the  face  thereof,  shall  contain  a  designation  of  the 
offices,  and  the  name  or  names  of  the  person  or  persons 
to  be  voted  for,  or  such  of  them  as  any  voter  may  desire 
to  vote  for,  and  which,  when  folded,  shall  be  indorsed,  or 
show  upon  the  outside  thereof,  the  words  "  General,  num- 
ber two,"  and  be  deposited  in  box  number  two.  The  name 
of  the  person  designated  for  representative  in  congress 
shall  be  on  a  separate  ballot,  which,  upon  the  face  thereof, 
shall  contain  a  designation  of  the  office  and  the  district 
for  which  the  officer  is  to  be  elected,  and  which,  when 
folded,  shall  be  indorsed,  or  show  upon  the  outside  there- 
of, the  words  "  Congress,  number  three,"  and  be  deposited 
in  box  number  three.  The  name  of  the  person  designated 
for  senator  shall  be  upon  a  separate  ballot,  which,  on  the 
face  thereof,  shall  contain  a  designation  of  the  office  of 
the  district  for  which  the  officer  is  to  be  elected,  and 
which,  when  folded,  shall  be  indorsed,  or  show  upon  the 
outside  thereof,  the  words  u  Senator,  number  four,"  and 
to  be  deposited  in  box  number  four.  The  name  of  the 
person  designated  for  member  of  assembly  shall  be  on  a 
separate  ballot,  which,  upon  the  face  thereof,  shall  contain 
a  designation  of  the  office  and  the  district  for  which  the 
officer  is  to  be  elected,  and  which,  when  folded,  shall  be 
indorsed,  or  show  upon  the  outside  thereof,  the  words 
"  Assembly,  number  live,"  and  to  be  deposited  in  box 
number  live.  The  names  of  the  persons  designated  for 
aldermen  to  be  elected  l>v  senate  districts  shall  be  on  a 


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How  folded. 


separate  ballot,  which,  upon  the  face  thereof,  shall  con- 
tain a  designation  of  the  office  and  the  senate  district  for 
which  the  officers  are  to  be  elected,  and  which,  when 
folded,  shall  be  indorsed,  or  show  on  the  outside  thereof, 
the  words  "  City,  number  six,"  and  to  be  deposited  in  box  °wm 

i  •         mi  <•   . «  ,     .         .     n     r       Where  deposited. 

number  six.    Ihe  names  or  the  persons  designated  tor 
justice  of  the  district  court  shall  be  upon  one  ballot,  which  j^SfiStdt 
ballot,  upon  the  face  thereof,  shall  contain  a  designation  trictcourfc- 
of  the  office,  and  the  district  for  which  the  officers  are  to  iSame^offlS, 

and  district. 

be  elected,  and  the  name  or  names  or  the  person  or  persons 
to  be  voted  for,  or  such  of  them  as  any  voter  may  desire 
to  vote  for,  and  which,  when  folded,  shall  be  indorsed,  or  Howfolded- 

.  How  indorsed. 

show  upon  the  outside  thereof,  the  words  "Justices,  num- 
ber seven,"  and  to  be  deposited  in  box  number  seven.  iK;redepo8" 


Sec.  5.  At  all  elections  hereafter  held  in  the  city  and  At  an  elections 

polls  open  at  b 

county  of  New  York,  the  polls  shall  be  opened  at  six  ^t^a^dclo8e 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  close  at  four  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon. 


Sec.  6.  At  every  election  hereafter  held  in  the  city  Electiong  and 
and  county  of  New  York,  the  election  and  canvass  of  ^tobe"™0 
the  votes  cast  thereat  shall  be  in  all  respects  conducted  formity1with' 

general  election 

in  conformity  to  the  provisions  of  the  general  election  h^^^^la. 
laws  of  this  state,  except  as  in  this  act  otherwise  pro- 
vided. 

Sec.  7.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  "the  board  of  Board  of  police 

f  J  to  establish 

police"  of  the  city  of  New  lork,  on  or  before  the  first  ^iu0felc^* 
day  of  August,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-two,  to 
establish  a  bureau  in  the  office  of  the  department  of 
police,  in  the  city  and  county  of  New  York,  to  be 
known  and  designated  as  the  bureau  of  elections.  The 
affairs  of  said  bureau  shall,  under  and  subject  to  such 
rules,  regulations,  and  orders  as  may  from  time  to  time 
be  made  and  adopted  by  said  board  of  police,  be  man- 
aged, conducted,  and   carried  on   by   a   suitable  and 

_  .  .  J      _  _     i  .  _  And  appoint  a 

proper  person,   to    be   chosen  and   selected   by   said  ^^0^^. 
board,  who  shall  be  known  as  the  chief  of  the  bureau  tions- 
of  elections,  shall  hold  office  for  the  period  of  three  iSeyeaS00 
years,  and  whose  salary  shall  be  fixed  and  paid  by  said  salary  to  be 


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board,  at  such  sum  as  they  shall  deem  proper,  not  ex- 
ceeding five  thousand  dollars, 
22?d  fS^Sle.  by  the  board  of  police  for  cause. 


fixed  by  the 

ceediig  $5,000.    ceeding  five  thousand  dollars,  and  shall  be  removable 


Board  of  police 
to  prepare  books 
for  registration 
of  names  and 
facts. 

To  be  called 
Registers. 


To  contain  the 
name  of  each 
street.  No.  of 
each  dwelling. 


Names  of  all 
male  persons  in 
each  dwelling. 

Who  shall  apply 
for  registration. 


Registers,  how 
ruled,  and  be  of 
size  to  contain 
700  names. 
What  to  con- 


When  used. 


Sec.  8.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  "  the  board  of 
police "  to  at  once  cause  to  be  prepared  books  for  the 
registration  of  names  and  facts  required  by  this  act 
Said  books  to  be  known  by  the  general  name  of 
registers,  and  to  be  so  arranged  as  to  admit  of  the 
entering,  under  the  name  of  each  street  or  avenue-  in 
each  election  district,  and  the  number  of  each  dwelling 
in  any  such  street  or  avenue,  if  there  be  a  number 
thereto,  and  if  there  be  no  number,  under  such  other 
definite  description  of  the  location  of  the  dwelling- 
place  as  shall  enable  it  to  be  readily  ascertained,  found, 
and  located,  of  the  names  of  all  male  persons  resident 
in  each  dwelling  in  each  of  said  districts  who  shall 
apply  for  registration.  Said  register  shall  be  ruled  in 
parallel  columns,  in  which,  opposite  to  and  against 
the  name  of  every  applicant,  shall  be  entered  the 
words  and  figures  hereinafter  provided  in  this  act,  and 
shall  be  of  such  size  as  to  contain  not  less  than  seven 
hundred  names,  and  so  prepared  as  that  they  may  be 
used  at  each  election  in  the  city  and  county  of  New 
York,  until  such  time  as  is  in  this  act  provided  for  the 
succeeding  general  registration,  and  shall,  on  the 
inside,  be  in  appearance  and  form  as  follows,  to  wit : 


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application. 

March  16,  1872. 
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March  30,  1872. 

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May  17, 1871 
Oct.  30. 1868 

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Boar  1  of  police 

to  divide  : 

bly  disrriets 
into  election 
districts. 


Each,  district  to 
contain  250 
votes. 


Snch  districts 
not  to  be 
changed  except, 
etc..  etc. 


When  to  re-dis- 
irict  on  same 
basis. 


Duties  of  the 
chief  of  bureau 
of  elections  to 
keep  certain 
papers. 


to  prepare  and 
furnish  books 
and  stationery. 


and  all  needed 
supplies. 


to  have  custody 
of,  and  keep  all 
records,  papers, 
etc., 


to  have  charge 
of  fitting  up  of 
polling-places, 


to  issue  regin 
ter.s  in  ocrtain 
eases. 


Sec.  9.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  "the  board  of  police," 
on  or  before  the  first  day  of  September,  in  the  year 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy-two,  to  di- 
vide the  several  assembly  districts  in  the  city  and 
county  of  New  York  into  election  districts,  so  that  each 
election  district  shall  contain,  as  near  as  practicable, 
two  hundred  and  fifty  voters ;  and  it  shall  not  be  law- 
ful for  said  board  to  thereafter  alter  or  change  either 
the  number  or  boundaries  of  any  election  district  so 
fixed  by  them,  save  in  such  years  as  by  law  the  said 
city  and  county  is  re -districted  by  assembly  districts, 
and  in  such  years  as  the  usual  and  customary  national 
enumeration  of  citizens  in  said  city  and  county  is  had 
and  taken,  when  a  general  re-districting  of  said  city 
and  county,  upon  the  same  basis  as  to  number  of  voters 
as  in  this  section  above  provided,  shall  be  made  by 
assembly  districts  at  least  as  early  as  the  twentieth 
day  of  September  in  said  years. 

Sec.  10.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  the 
bureau  of  elections  to  receive,  file,  and  preserve  in  his 
office  all  resolutions,  orders,  rules,  and  regulations  of 
said  board  of  police,  pertaining  to  or  in  anywise 
affecting  the  conduct  of  the  affairs  of  his  bureau;  to 
prepare  and  furnish  all  necessary  registers,  books, 
maps,  forms,  oaths,  certificates,  blanks,  and  instructions 
for  the  use  of  the  inspectors  of  election  and  the  board 
of  county  canvassers;  to  provide  for  the  furnishing 
of  such  officers  therewith  and  with  all  necessary  sup- 
plies; to  have  and  retain  the  custody  of  all  registers 
and  copies  thereof  provided  for  in  this  act,  all  oaths  of 
office  and  of  removal,  and  all  records,  papers,  and  cer- 
tificates of  every  kind  and  nature  pertaining  to  the 
affairs  of  his  bureau,  the  conduct  of  any  registration 
of  electors,  revision  thereof,  or  of  any  election  ;  and  to 
have  charge  of  the  fitting  up  of  all  polling-places. 
The  said  chief  shall,  for  any  revision  of  any  general 
registration,  issue  to  each  of  the  inspectors  of  election, 
in  each  election  district  in  the  city  and  county  of  New 
York,  one  of  the  registers  of  said  district  in  use  therein 
at  the  preceding  election,  and  returned  to  and  filed  by 
him  in  his  office. 


Sec.  11.  The  chief  of  the   bureau  of  elections  shall  to  appoint  a  i 

chief  clerk. 

have  the  right,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  board  of 

police,  to  appoint  a  chief   clerk,  who  shall  receive  a 

salary  not  exceeding  two  thousand  dollars  per  annum.  IxS^Iooo. 

Such  other  clerical  assistance  as,  in  the  judgment  of 

said  board,  shall  be  necessary  and  proper  for  the  faith-  B^totmm^x 

ful  performance    by  the  bureau    of   elections  of   the  amonS'putroi- 

duties  in  this  act  imposed,  shall  be  furnished  by  said  men' 

board  by  detail  from  among  the  patrolmen  under  its 

command. 

Sec  12.  On  the  organization  of  the  bureau  of  elec-  Former  bureau 

D  of  elections  to 

tions,  as  hereinafter  provided,  all  documents,  returns,  gSSSKSiSSn- 

maps,   books,  accounts,  forms,  papers,  and  records  of  pape^etc^' 

every  description  filed  in,  or  belonging  to  the  bureau 

of   elections  heretofore  established,  shall  be  transferred 

to  the  custody  of  the  bureau  in  this  act  contemplated, 

and  filed  therein ;  and  on  such  organization,  the  said 

bureau  of  elections  heretofore  established  by  authority 

of  section  seventeen  of  the  act,  chapter  one  hundred  JKBEiSa 

and  thirty-eight  of  the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred  and  SboisE1 

seventy,  entitled  "  An  act  in  relation  to  elections  in  the 

city  and  county  of  New  York,"  and  the  act  or  acts 

amendatory  thereof,  shall  be  and  the  same  hereby  is 

abolished. 

Sec.  13.  All  inspectors  of  election  and  poll-clerks  in 
the  city  and  county  of  New  York  shall  hereafter  be  inspectors  of 

elections  and 

selected  and  appointed  by  the  board  of  police,  who  {£!J^rk£an&- 
shall  also  have  power  to  make  all  necessary  removals  moved'i^tnt 

,  „  ,     n,,       ,,  .  i-i  r  board  of  police. 

and  translers,  and  nil  all  vacancies  which  may,  from 
any  cause,  arise.    It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  board 

,        ,  "  Appointments 

of  police,  in  the  months  of  August  and  September,  in  {SjjJSJls*. 

the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy- two,  ternber- 

and  annually  in  the  months  of  August  and  September  in 

each  succeeding  year,  for  each  election  district  in  said 

city  and   county,  to  select  to  serve  as   inspectors  of 

election,  four  persons  (two  of   whom,  on  state  issues,  Four  inspectors 

1  v  1  'to  each  district, 

shall  be  of  different  political  faith  and  opinions  from  pvarty.£each 
their  associates,  and  those  appointed  to  represent  the 
party  in  political  minority  on  state  issues  in  the  said 
city  and  county,  to  be  named  solely  by  such  commis- 

•  \        n  >a        lc  •  r  i  •  •  Commissioners 

sioner,  or  such  or  the  "commissioners  ol   police     in  of  police. 


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Of  minority 
party  to  name 
inspectors  for 
each  district. 

Qualifications 
required  for 
inspectors. 

His  qualification. 


Manner  of  ap- 
pointment. 


Oath  of  office. 


Form  and  sub- 
stance of. 


Certificate  of 
appointment. 


Form  of. 


Term  of  office. 


Removals  from 
office 


said  board  as  are  the  representatives  of  such  political 
minority),  who  shall  be  citizens  of  the  United  States 
and  of  the  State  of  New  York,  of  good  character, 
and  able  to  read,  write,  and  speak  the  English  language 
understandingly,  qualified  voters  in  said  city  and  county, 
and  not  candidates  for  any  office  to  be  voted  for  by  the 
electors  of  the  district  for  which  they  shall  be  selected ; 
but  no  person  shall  be  required  to  be  a  resident  or  voter 
in  the  election  district  for  which  he  shall  be  appointed 
an  inspector.  The  persons  so  selected  shall  be  notified, 
examined  as  to  their  qualifications,  and,  if  approved, 
shall  each  take  and  subscribe  before  the  chief  of  the 
bureau  of  elections  or  the  chief  clerk  thereof,  within 
twenty  days  from  the  date  of  notice  of  appointment,  the 
following  oath  of  office  : 

"  I,  residing  at  No. 

in  the  city  of  New  York,  do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm) 
that  I  will  support  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States  and  of  the  State  of  New  York ;  and  that  I  will 
faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of  the  office  of  Inspector 
of  Elections  for  the  Election  District  of 

the  Assembly  District  of  the  City  of  New 

York  according  to  the  best  of  my  ability ;  and  that  I  am 
a  citizen  of  the  United  States  and  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  a  qualified  voter  in  the  city  and  county  of  New 
York,  and  not  a  candidate  for  any  office  to  be  voted 
for  by  the  electors  of  the  district  for  which  I  am  ap- 
pointed an  Inspector." 

Whoever  shall  be  nominated,  approved,  and  sworn 
into  office  as  an  inspector  of  election  shall  receive  a 
certificate  of  appointment  from  the  board  of  police, 
said  certificate  to  be  in  such  form  as  shall  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  said  board,  and  to  specify  the  assembly 
and  election  districts  in  and  for  which  the  person  to 
whom  the  same  is  issued  is  appointed  to  serve,  and 
the  date  of  expiration  of  his  term  of  office.  The  in- 
spectors of  election,  appointed  under  the  provisions  of 
this  act,  shall  hold  office  for  one  year,  unless  sooner 
removed  for  want  of  the  requisite  qualifications,  or  for 
cause,  in  either  of  which  cases  such  removal,  unless  made 
while  the  inspector  is  actually  on  duty  on  a  day  of 


registration,  revision  of 


registration,  or 


election,  and 


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for  improper  conduct  as  an  election  officer,  shall  only  SSs°Lpro~ 

be  made  after  notice  in  writing  to  the  officer  sought  to 

be  removed,  which  notice  shall  set  forth  clearly  and 

distinctly  the  reasons  for  his  removal.    Provided  that 

any  inspector  of   election  who  shall  at  any  time  be  in^wtorea^- 

appointed  to  fill  a  vacancy,  which  fact  shall  be  stated  hoM^dur- 

in  his  certificate  of  appointment,  shall  hold  office  only  tSnexpired 

during  the  unexpired  term  of  his  predecessor.  And 

that  no  inspector  of  election  or  poll-clerk  shall  be  trans-  ^^^g^ 

f erred  from  one  election  district  to  another  after  he  has  l^f erred  ex~ 

entered  upon  the  performance  of  his  duties. 

Sec.  14.  Any  person  applying  to  register  or  offering  Applicants 
to  vote,  or  who  is  registered,  may,  on  any  day  of  any  r^^Suii- 
general  registration,  revision  of  registration  or  of  elec- 
tion, be  challenged  by  any  qualified  voter  in  the  city  By  whom, 
and  county  of  New  York,  and  either  of  the  inspectors 
of  election,  in  any  election  district  in  said  city  and 
county,  may,  at  any  authorized  meeting  of  the  board, 
and  one  of  them  shall  administer  to  any  person  so  in  such  case 

J     x  oath  to  be  admin- 

chal lenged  the  oath  or  oaths  provided  by  law  to  test  i8tered. 
the  qualification  of  challenged  electors ;   and  either  of 
said  inspectors  may,  at  such  meeting,  administer  to  any 
applicant  for  registration  the  oath  or  oaths  provided  In  other 
in  this  act  to  be  administered  to  and  taken  by  any  such 
applicant,  and  may  also  administer  to  any  elector  of 
the  election  district  who  may  be  offered  as  a  witness  to  Also  to  wit- 
prove  the  qualification  of  any  person  claiming  the  right  nesse8- 
to  be  registered,  or  to  vote,  the  following  oath  :  "  You  do  Form  of  oath, 
swear  or  affirm  that  you  are  an  elector  of  this  election 
district,  that  you  will  fully  and  truly  answer  all  such 
questions  as  shall  be  put  to  you  touching  the  place  of 
residence  and  other  qualifications  as  an  elector  of  the 
person  (name  be  given)  now  claiming  the  right  to  be 
registered  as  a  voter  in  this  district." 

Sec.  15.  Two  persons  of  different  political  faith  and  poii-cierka. 
opinions,   on    state   issues,   and  possessing  the  other  How  appointed, 
qualifications  required  by  this  act  of  inspectors  of  elec-  Qualifications, 
tion,  shall  be,  in  all  respects,  similarly  named,  selected, 
notified,  examined,  appointed,  commissioned,  and  sworn 
as  poll-clerks  in  and  for  each  election  district  in  the 


oath  to  be  ad- 
ministered. 


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Termor  office  of.  city  an(j  C0llTltv  0f  ftew  York.    They  shall  hold  office  for 
the  same  period  of  time  and  upon  the  same  conditions  as 
certificate  of      are  above  prescribed  for  inspectors  of  election,  and  shall 

appointment  of.  *  L  1 

receive  a  like  certificate  of  appointment. 


Vacancies  in 
office  of  inspec- 
tors and  poll- 
clerks,  how  filled. 


Inspectors  and 
poll-clerks,  com- 
pensation of. 


How  certified 
and  paid. 


No  payments  to 
be  made  in  cer- 
tain cases. 


Acting:  as  inspec- 
tor or  poll-clerk 
in  certain  cases  a 
misdemeanor. 

Inspectors  and 
poll  clerka  ex- 
empted from 
military  and 
jury  duty. 


Persons  noti- 
fied of  appoint- 
ment. 


Must  appear 
before  chief  of 
bure.iu  of  elec- 
tions. 


Sec.  16.  Whenever,  from  any  cause,  there  shall  exist  a 
vacancy  in  the  office  of  inspector  of  election  or  poll -clerk, 
the  person  appointed  to  fill  such  vacancy  shall  be  named 
by  such  commissioner,  or  such  of  the  commissioners  of 
said  board  of  police  or  his  successors  or  their  successors 
as  named  the  inspector  or  poll-clerk  in  whose  place  any 
such  person  is  designated. 

Sec.  17.  [Amended  by  chap.  823  of  the  Laws  of 
1873,  so  as  to  read  as  follows:'] — Inspectors  of  elec- 
tion and  poll-clerks  appointed  in  pursuance  of  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  shall  each  be  entitled  to  re- 
ceive seven  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  day  for  each 
day's  service  at  any  registration,  revision  of  regis- 
tration or  election,  which  compensation  shall  be  paid 
on  the  certificate  of  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of  elections 
as  to  the  period  of  service  ;  but  no  payment  shall  be  made 
to  any  person  as  an  inspector  of  election  or  poll-clerk 
who  shall  not  have  taken,  subscribed  and  filed  the  oath  or 
affirmation  required  herein,  and  who  shall  not,  during 
the  period  of  his  service,  have  fully  complied  with  all  the 
requirements  of  law  in  anywise  relating  to  his  duties, 
and  the  acting  of  any  such  person,  in  either  of  said 
capacities,  without  having  taken,  subscribed  and  filed  the 
said  oath  or  affirmation,  shall  be  deemed  to  be  and 
punished  as  a  misdemeanor.  Inspectors  of  election  and 
poll-clerks,  during  the  time  they  shall  hold  such  office, 
shall  be  exempt  from  the  performance  of  military  and 
jury  duty. 

Sec.  18.  Each  and  every  person  selected  and  notified 
by  the  board  of  police  as  its  choice  for  the  office  of 
inspector  of  election,  shall,  on  the  receipt  of  notice 
thereof,  appear,  within  ten  days  thereafter,  before  the 
chief  of  the  bureau  of  elections,  for  the  purpose  of  ex- 
amination, and,  if  found  qualified,  shall,  unless  excused 
by  said  board,  by  reason  of  ill  health,  or  other  good 
and  sufficient  cause,  be  bound   to  serve  as  such  officer 


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at  every  election  for  the  term  of  one  year  from  the  date  ScSd. 

of  his  appointment,  and  in  case  of  neglect  or  refusal  to 

comply  with  the  above  requirements,  or  to  serve  or  act, 

shall  be  liable  to  a  penalty  of  one  hundred  dollars,  re-  under  penalty 
.        .  r        J  '       of  $ico  for  re- 

coverable by  the  said  board  by  civil  action,  m  any  court  fusins- 

of  record,  in  the  name  of  the  treasurer  of  the  board, 
and  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  the  police  fund.  And  a 
failure  on  the  part  of  any  such  person  to  present  himself  fom"dutiesper" 
for  examination,  or  to  comply  with  any  of  the  require-  fS.e  are 
ments  of  this  act  preliminary  to  receiving  his  certificate 
of  appointment  within  the  time  prescribed,  or  to  attend 
on  the  day  of  any  registration  or  revision  of  registra- 
tion or  the  day  of  any  election  during  said  term,  unless 
prevented  by  sickness  or  other  sufficient  cause — the 
burden  of  proof  of  which  shall  be  upon  the  delinquent 
— shall  be  deemed  a  refusal  within  the  meaning  of  this 
section. 

Sec.  19.  The  inspectors  of  election  in  each  election  Jjjlj!^™^ 
district  in  the  city  and  county  of  New  York,  while  dis-  etc" 
charging  any  of  the  duties  imposed  upon  them  by  this 
act,  shall  have  full  authority  to  preserve  order  and  en- 
force obedience  to  their  lawful  commands  at  and  around 
the  place   of   registration,  revision  of   registration,  or  at  place*  of 

7  .  °  registration  and 

election,  during  the  time  of  any  registration,  revision  p°Us of election, 
of  registration,  election,  or  canvass,  estimate,  or  return 
of  votes ;   to  keep  the  access  to  such  place  open  and 
unobstructed  ;    to  prevent  and  suppress  riots,  tumults,  suppress  riots, 
violence,  disorder,  and  all  other  improper  practices,  tend- 
ing to  the  intimidation  or  obstruction  of  voters,  the  dis- 
turbance or  interruption  of  the  work  of  registration, 
revision  of  registration,  or  voting,  or  the  canvass,  estimate 
or  return  of  votes,  and  to  protect  the  voters,  challengers,  Sd^SSa 
and  persons  designated  to  watch  the  canvass  of  any 
ballots,  from  intimidation  or  violence,  and  the  registers, 
poll-books,  boxes,  and  ballots  from  violence  and  fraud ; 
and  to  appoint  or  deputize,  if  necessary,  one  or  more  for  these v™- . 

r  J  J  5  poses  to  deputize 

electors  to  communicate  their  orders  and  directions,  and  torstoaS.elec" 
to  assist  in  the  enforcement  thereof. 


Sec  20.  Hereafter,  there  shall,  in  the  city  and  Future  general 
county  of  New  York,  be  a  general  registration  of  the  be 


registrations  to 
had. 


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On  Tuesday  four 
weeks,  Wednes- 
day the  third 
week,  and  Fri- 
day and  Satur- 
day the  second 
week  preceding 
the  November 
election  of  the 
year  1872,  and  of 
each  year  there- 
after. 


For  elections 
other  than  above. 


Revisions  of 
registration 
shall  be  on  Fri- 
day and  Satur- 
day of  second 
week  preceding 
the  day  of  such 
election. 


qualified  voters  resident  in  each  election  district  in 
said  city  and  county  at  the  times  hereinbelow  provided, 
and  then  only:  On  Tuesday  four  weeks,  the  Wednesday 
of  the  third  week,  and  the  Friday  and  Saturday  of 
the  second  week  preceding  the  day  of  the  November 
election,  in  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
seventy-two,  and  thereafter  on  the  same  days  of  the 
week  and  at  the  same  intervals  of  time  preceding 
the  day  of  the  November  election  in  each  year.  For 
each  and  every  election  held  in  the  city  and  county  of 
New  York,  other  than  such  as  above  designated  in 
this  section,  there  shall  be  a  revision  of  the  general 
registration  had,  as  provided  in  this  act,  which  revi- 
sion shall  be  made  on  the  Friday  and  Saturday  of  the 
second  week  preceding  the  day  of  each  and  every  such 
election. 


Inspectors  of 
election  shall 


Organize  how. 


Receive  appli- 
cations for  regis- 
tration from 
persons  who 
rKjrsonally 
apply. 


Remain  in  ses- 
sion from  8 
o'clock  A .  to 
«J  o'clock  P.  M. 

To  administer 


Sec.  21.  The  inspectors  of  election  appointed  pursuant 
to  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall,  at  the  times  in  this  act 
designated  for  a  general  registration,  meet  in  their 
respective  election  districts,  at  the  places  which,  as  pro- 
vided in  this  act,  shall  be  designated  therein  for  such 
meetings,  and  at  such  times  in  each  election  district,  the 
said  inspectors  of  election  shall  openly  and  publicly  do 
and  perform  the  following  acts,  viz.  : 

1.  They  shall  organize,  as  a  board,  by  selecting  one  of 
their  number  to  act  as  chairman ;  but  in  case  of  a 
failure  to  so  organize  within  fifteen  minutes  after  the  time 
fixed  for  the  meeting,  the  chairman  shall  be  selected  by 
lot. 

2.  They  shall  receive  the  applications  for  registration 
of  such  male  residents  of  their  several  election  districts 
as  then  are,  or  on  the  day  of  election  next  following  the 
day  of  making  such  applications,  would  be,  entitled  to 
vote  therein,  and  who  shall  personally  present  themselves, 
and  such  only. 

3.  They  shall  remain  in  session  on  each  of  said  days, 
between  the  hours  of  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning  and 
nine  o'clock  in  the  evening,  and  shall  administer,  to  all 
persons  who  personally  apply  to  register,  the  following 
oath  or  affirmation,  viz. : 


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"You  do  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm)  that  you  will  fully  Forinofoath- 
and  truly  answer  all  such  questions  as  shall  be  put  to 
you  touching  your  place  of  residence,  name,  place 
of  birth,  your  qualifications  as  an  elector,  and  your 
right  as  such  to  register  and  vote  under  the  laws  of  this 
state." 

4.  They  shall  then  examine  each  applicant  as  to  his  Examine  each 
qualifications  as  an  elector,  and,  unless  otherwise  pro-  appUcant- 
vided  herein,  shall  immediately,  and  in  the  presence  of 
the  applicant,  enter  in  the  registers,  to  be  made  and  Enter  in  register 
furnished  as  provided  in  this  act,  the  statements  and 
acts  below  set  forth,  and  in  the  manner  following,  viz. : 
First.  Under  the  column  "residence,"  the  name  and  Name  and  no. 
number  of  the  street,  avenue  or  other  location  of  the 
dwelling,  if  there  be  a  number,  but  if  there  shall  not 
be  a  number,  such  clear  and  definite  description  of  the 
place  of  said  dwelling  as  shall  enable  it  to  be  readily 
ascertained,  fixed  and  determined ;  and  if  there  shall 
be  more  than  one  house  at  the  number  given  by  the 
applicant  as  his  place  of  residence,  in  which  house  he 
resides,  and  if  there  be  more  than  one  family  residing  Proceedings  if 
in  said  house,  either  the  floor  on  which  he  resides,  "Sy^*0116 

house. 

every  floor  below  the  level  of  the  ground  being  desig- 
nated as  the  basement,  the  first  floor  on  or  above  such  Thebeiow 
level  as  the  first  floor,  and  each  floor  above  that  as  the  mentn;dnextase 

7  above,  1st  floor. 

second,  or  such  other  floor  as  it  may  be,  or  the  num- 
ber or  location  of  the  room  or  rooms  occupied  by  the  to  enter  No.  of 

o-itti       room  or  rooms 

applicant,  and  whether  front  or  rear.     second.    Under  occupied, 
the  column  "  address,"  the  name  of  the  applicant,  giv- 
ing the  surname  and  christian  name  in  full ;  but  the  Name  of  app]i. 
names  of  all  persons  residing  in  the  same  dwelling  to  eSred?w 
follow  each  other,  and   to   be  under  the  street  and 
house  number,  or  other  description,  as  provided  of  the 
dwelling.    Third.   Under  the  column  of  "  sworn,"  the 
word  "yes"  or  "no,"  as  the  fact  shall  be.  Fourth. 
Under  the  column  of   "  nativity,"  the  state,  country,  XT  M    •  "M 

J  7  ;  J  1    Nativity  of  ap-  ! 

kingdom,  empire,  or   dominion,   as  the  fact  shall  be  §£ed\how 
stated  by  the  applicant.    Fifth.  Under  the  column  of 
"color,"  the  words  "white"  or  "colored,"  as  the  fact  Color,  ditto, 
shall  be.    Sixth.  Under  the  subdivisions  of  the  general  Jee™°fresi" 
column  of  "  term  of  residence,"  the  periods  by  months  how  entered. 


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Naturalization, 
how  designated 
date  of. 


Court  by  which. 


Qualification 
and  disqualifica- 
tions, how  desig- 
nated. 

To  be  determin- 
ed by  concur- 
rence of  three 
inspectors. 


Case  of  minors 
coming  of  age 
before  election 
day. 


Date  of  applica- 
tion, how 
entered. 


or  years  stated  by  the  applicant,  in  response  to  the 
inquiries  made  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  his 
qualification  and  filling  such  column.  Seventh.  Under 
the  column  of  "naturalized,"  the  words  "yes"  or 
"no,"  or  "native,"  as  the  fact  shall  be  stated.  Eighth. 
Under  the  column  of  "  date  of  papers,"  the  date  of 
naturalization,  if  naturalized,  as  the  same  shall  appear 
by  the  evidence  of  citizenship  submitted  or  presented 
by  the  applicant  in  compliance  with  the  requirements 
of  this  act.  Ninth.  Under  the  column  of  "court," 
the  designation  of  the  court  in  which,  if  naturalized, 
such  naturalization  was  done,  as  the  same  shall  appear, 
by  the  evidence  of  citizenship  submitted  or  presented  by 
the  applicant  in  compliance  with  the  requirements  of 
this  act.  Tenth.  Under  the  column  of  "  qualified 
voter,"  the  words  "  yes  "  or  "  no,"  as  the  fact  shall  appear 
and  be  determined  by  at  least  three  of  the  board  of 
inspectors  of  election,  it  being,  however,  required  of 
them  to  designate  as  a  qualified  voter,  any  male  person, 
who,  being  otherwise  qualified,  shall  not,  at  the  time 
of  making  the  application,  be  of  age,  provided  the 
time  when  such  applicant  shall  be  of  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  shall  be  subsequent  to  the  date  of  his  making  appli- 
cation, and  not  later  than  the  day  of  the  election  imme- 
diately following  such  time  of  applying.  Eleventh. 
Under  the  column  of  "  date  of  application,"  the  month, 
day  and  year  when  the  applicant  presented  himself 
and  was  adjudged  a  qualified  voter  in  the  election 
district. 


Inspectors  to 
meet  for  revis- 
ion of  registers 


at  the  time  re- 
quired by  law, 


and  publicly 


receive  the  ap- 
plication <>f 
persons  whose 
names  arc  not 
borne  on  the 
register,  , 


Sec.  22.  On  the  days  and  at  the  times  in  this  act 
designated  for  any  revision  of  any  general  registra- 
tion, the  duly  qualified  inspectors  of  election  shall  meet 
in  their  respective  election  districts,  at  the  places  which, 
in  accordance  with  the  requirements  of  this  act,  shall 
have  been  provided  for  such  meetings,  and  shall  openly 
and  publicly  do  and  perform  the  following  acts,  viz.: 
Each  and  every  of  the  duties  and  requirements  bet 
forth  in  subdivisions  one  and  three  of  section  twenty- 
one  of  this  act.  They  shall  in  each  election  district, 
receive  the  applications  for  registration  of  such  male 
residents  of  the  election  district;  whose  names  are  not 


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then  borne  upon  the  registers  thereof,  as  qualified 
voters  therein,  as  shall  personally  present  themselves, 
and  who,  on  the  dav  of  election  next  ensuing,  would  who  on  next 

7   ..  "  °  election  day 

be  entitled  to  vote  therein  ;  and  as  to  all  applications  J^edkSff 

made  to  them  shall  proceed  therewith  in  the  manner 

provided  in  subdivision  four  of  section  twenty-one  of 

this  act,  provided  that  if  upon  the  examination,  as  in 

this  act  provided  for,  of  any  applicant  for  registration,  it  if  applicant  has 

in-  i         »       i  .  i       i  ?  n  moved  into  the 

shall  appear  that  he  has,  since  the  last  day  or  any  gjwotigB^ 
general  registration  of  voters  or  revision  thereof,  in  the  day- 
said  city  and  county  of  New  York,  moved  into  or  become 
a  resident  of  said  election  district,  the  said  inspectors 
shall  inquire  from  where  such  applicant  removed  or 
came  from  ;  and  if  it  shall  appear  that  such  removal 
was  from  a  place  within  the  said  city  and  county  they 
shall  inquire  if,  in  the  election  district  in  which  he 
resided  at  the  time  of  the  last  preceding  general  regis- 
tration (naming  such  time),  or  in  which  he  has  resided 
at  any  time  subsequent  thereto,  he  has  been  registered,  co0mpiiednw)th.be 
or  has  applied  for  registration  ;  and  if  he  shall  swear 
that  he  has  not,  then  the  said  inspectors  shall  proceed 
with  said  application  as  with  that  of  any  other  person 
who  may  apply  to  them ;  but  if  he  shall  swear  that 
he  has  been  so  registered,  the  said  inspectors  shall, 
before  further  proceeding,  require  him  to  present 
to  them  a  "  certificate  of  removal,"  as  provided  for 
in  this  act  so  that  his  name  shall  not  be  upon  the 
registers  of  two  election  districts  ;  and  upon  the  pre- 
sentation to  any  board  of  inspectors  of  any  "  certificate  me0^c^tf3" 
of  removal,"  the  said  board  shall  treat  the  person  present- 
ing the  same  in  the  manner  provided  in  subdivision  four 
of  section  twenty-one  of  this  act  for  applicants  for  regis- 
tration. 

Sec.  23.  Any  person  who  shall  at  any  time,  as  pro-  persons  remov- 

.  tt  i  ing  from  dwelling 

vided  in  this  act,  have  personally  applied  to  the  m-  to  another, 
spectors  of  election  in  any  election  district  of  the  city 
and  county  of  New  York  for  registration,  and  shall 
have  in  the  registers  thereof  been  entered  as  a  quali- 
fied voter,  and  who  shall  at  any  time  prior  to  the  close 
of  any  general  registration  or  revision  of  registration, 
have  removed  from  the  dwelling-place  under  which  he 


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Personally  ap- 
ply to  the  board 
of' inspectors. 


Oath  may  be 
administered. 


Form  of. 


To  be  filed  in 
the  bareau  of 
elections. 


Cace  to  be  ex- 
amined. 


In  caw  of  re- 
moval within 
Bame  district. 


shall,  as  a  resident,  be  borne  upon  the  registers,  may, 
upon  any  day  provided  in  this  act  for  meetings  of  the 
inspectors  of  election,  other  than  the  day  of  any  election, 
personally  appear  before  the  said  inspectors  in  the  elec- 
tion district  in  which  he  resided  at  the  time  his  name 
was  entered  upon  the  said  registers,  during  the  hours  in 
this  act  provided  for  their  sessions,  and  publicly  take  and 
subscribe,  before  one  of  said  inspectors,  the  following 
oath  or  affirmation,  which  shall  be  known  as  an  "  oath  of 
removal : " 

"  I,  residing  at  No.  in  the 

Election  District  of  the  Assembly 
District  of  the  City  and  County  of  New  York,  do  sol- 
emnly swear  (or  affirm)  that  1  am  duly  entered  in  the 
registers  of  said  Election  District,  from  said 
residence,  as  a  qualified  voter,  and  that  I  have  removed 
my  place  of  residence  to  No.  in  the 

Election  District  of  the  Assem- 
bly District  of  said  City  and  County,  and  I  do  hereby 
request  that  the  proper  entries  and  records  be  made 
as  the  same  are  provided  for  by  law,  and  that  a 
'certificate  of  removal'  be  furnished  me  at  this 
time." 

That  upon  such  oath  or  affirmation  being  made  and 
subscribed  as  herein  provided,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  said  inspectors  to  carefully  preserve  the  same,  and 
file  within  twenty-four  hours  after  the  close  of  any 
general  registration  or  revision  of  registration  in  the 
bureau  of  elections.  And  upon  any  such  person,  so 
taking  and  subscribing  said  "  oath  of  removal,"  the 
said  inspectors  of  election,  if  satisfied  of  the  identity 
of  the  person  making  the  same,  with  the  person  he 
claims  to  be,  as  the  description  of  said  last  mentioned 
person  shall  appear  on  the  registers,  and  if  not  satis- 
fied therewith,  shall  at  once,  by  a  police  officer  present, 
or  by  any  one  whom  said  board  shall  especially 
authorize,  make  an  examination  and  inquiry  at  the 
place  of  residence  of  said  person,  as  the  same  shall  be 
entered  upon  the  registers,  as  to  the  fact  of  the  re- 
moval of  such  person  from  said  dwelling  place,  when, 
if  his  removal  therefrom  shall  be  found  by  the  report 
of  such  person  to  be  a  fact,  shall  immediately  proceed 


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to  strike  from  said  registers,  the  name  of  such  person, 
by  entering  in  each  of  the  registers,  opposite  to  and 
against  the  name  of  any  such  person,  and  in  the  col- 
umn headed  "why  disqualified,"  the  word  "removed,"  in  Entries  to  be 
the  column  headed  "  date  of  erasing  name,"  the  month, 
day,  and  year  of  such  striking  from  said  registers  such 
name,  and  in  the  column  headed  "remarks,"  the 
words  "transferred  to,"  with  the  number  of  the  elec- 
tion and  assembly  districts,  to  which  such  person  shall 
in  his  "oath  of  removal"  state  he  has  removed,  and 
the  initial  letters  of  the  name  of  the  inspector  who 
shall  in  each  of  said  registers  make  such  entries.  And 
shall,  through  the  name  of  any  such  person,  as  the 
same  shall  appear  on  said  registers,  and  there  only, 
draw  a  line  as  indicative  that  such  name  is  erased 
from  the  registers  of  that  election  district,  and  the 
name  of  any  such  person  so  found  stricken  and  erased 
from  said  registers,  shall,  as  to  his  name  and  his  resi- 
dence at  the  place  in  said  registers  entered  under  the 
column  of  "  residence,"  be  thereafter  considered  by 
the  "  bureau  of   elections,"  all  inspectors  of  election, 

-  and  all  other  election  officers,  to  be  stricken  from  the 
registers  of  that  election  district,  and  shall  be  treated 
as  if  never  entered  thereon.  If  the  dwelling-place  to 
which  any  such  person  shall  have  removed  be  within 
the  boundaries  of  the  same  election  district,  as  was 
his  former  residence,  as  stated  in  the  registers  of  said 
election  district,  the  said  inspectors  shall  in  said  regis- 
ters, under  the  number    or    other  description  of  the 

,  dwelling-place  to  which  such  person  has  removed,  enter  Re-entry  of  the 

...  -,      .         ,  ,         ,  .  ,  name  in  same 

his  name,  and  m  the  several  columns  opposite  ana  district  register, 
against  the  same,  such  words  and  figures  as  prior  to 
the  striking  from  or  erasing  of  the  name  of  such  per- 
son in  the  manner  in  this  section  above  provided,  were 
in  the  columns  similarly  headed  and  opposite  to  and 
against  the  name  of  each  person  as  upon  said  registers 
it  appeared  under  the  dwelling-place  from  which  he 
shall  have  declared  he  has  removed ;  and  if  the  dwell- 
ing-place to  which  any  such  person  shall  have  removed,  St^^S^S 
shall  be  within  the  boundaries  of  any  other  election 
district,  than  was  the  residence,  under  which  he  was 
previously  entered  on   said  registers,  the  said  inspec- 


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formerSrict    tors  °f  election  shall  fill  up,  sign,  and  deliver  to  such 
Ste^^Svai.  person  a  certificate,  which  shall  be  known  as  a "  cer- 
tificate of  removal,"  and  shall  be  in  the  words  and  figures 
following,  to  wit : 


Form  of.  "  CERTIFICATE  OF  REMOVAL." 

Polling  Place  of  the  Election  District, 

Assembly  District.  City  of  New 

York,  18     .    To  the  Board  of  In- 

spectors of  Election,  Election  Dis- 

trict, Assembly  District. 

This  is  to  certify  that  the  name  of 

heretofore  residing  at 
in  this  Election  District,  has  been  by  us, 
the  Inspectors   of  Election   in   this   district,  stricken 
from  the  registers  of  this  district  and  the  proper  era- 
sures made  upon  the  "  Oath  of  Removal "  and  at  the 
request  of  said  above-mentioned  person ;  and  that  upon 
the  registers  of  this  Election  District  were  entered  as  to 
him  the  following  statements  : 
Name  Residence 
Sworn  Nativity 
Color  Term  of  Residence  Assembly 

District  County  State 

Naturalized  Date  of  Papers 

Court  Qualified  Voters  Date  of 

Application 


InRpectors  of 
election  on  days 
o  f  peneral  regis- 
tration 


to  enter  in 

"  public  copy," 

"election  bureau 
copy  "  of  regis- 
ter. 

All  entries  of 
that  day. 


Sec.  24.  The  inspectors  of  election  in  each  election 
district  shall,  on  each  day  of  any  general  registration, 
before  adjourning,  enter  into  each  of  two  books  prepared 
one  of  which  shall  be  known  as  a 
the  registers,  and  the  other  of  which 
shall  be  known  as  the  "election  bureau  copy"  of  the 
registers,  all  such  names  and  residences,  and  all  such 
data,  information,  and  statements  as  during  the  day 
have  been  entered  by  the  inspectors  of  election  in  the 
registers  provided  in  this  act.    And  the  whole  six  books 


for  that  purpose, 
"  public  copy  "  of 


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shall,  on  each  of  said  days,  after  the  completion  of  such  six  copies  of 

'  "  register  to  be 

copies  of  the  registers,  be  carefully  compared  through-  compared  each: 
out,  so  that  each  of  the  registers  and  the  copies  thereof 
shall,  in  every  respect,  agree  with  each  other,  and  con- 
tain the  name  and  residence  of  each  person  who  shall 
have  applied  for  registration,  and  the  facts  respecting 
him  as  the  same  shall  have  been  stated  by  him  and 
entered  in  the  registers,  as  provided  in  this  act.  The 
said  inspectors  shall,  on  the  last  day  of  any  general  and  on  the  last 

r  •/  *J     o  registration  day 

registration,  certify  each  of   said   copies  in  the  same  thJSc^o?:^ 
manner  as  if  it  was  an  original,  and  within  forty-eight  an^within  forty 
hours  after  their  adjournment  on  said  last  day  of  any  bure'au'Spy" 
such  general  registration  shall  file  the  "  election  bureau  mthatbureau" 
copy  "  of  the  registers  with  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of 
elections  at  his  office,  where  the  same  shall  be  care- 
fully preserved.    And  the  said  inspectors  shall,  on  the 
last  day  of  any  revision  of  registration,  before  adjourn-  ^J^gSJa 
ing,  make  a  copy  of  the  registers  as  they  shall- then  be  benSdetota 
made  up  for  the  election  next  ensuing,  which  copy  shall  ^v^.ifl^bllC 
be  marked,  and  known  as  a  '4  public  copy,"  and  shall  be 
certified  as  a  copy  of  the  original  registers  as  then  ex- 
-isting  for  the  election   next  ensuing ;   and  they  shall  Mso  make,  mi 
also  make,  fill,  and  certify,  in  blanks  to  be  prepared  and  b?anks,rtify m 
furnished  for  that  purpose,  the  name  and  all  such  other  containing  the 

*       i        '  names,  etc.,  of 

particulars  as  shall  be  entered  against  or  opposite  to 

the  name  of  any  person,  which  *  have  been  once  entered  aii persons 

upon  their  registers,  shall  have  been,  on  the  days  of  any 

such  revision  of   registration,  for  any  reason  stricken    . ,  _ 

°  7#  J  >  stricken  from 

therefrom,  as  provided  in  this  act,  together  with  the 
name  and  all  such  other  particulars  as  shall  be  entered 
against  or  opposite  to  the  name  of  any  person  who 
shall,  on  any  such  day  of  revision,  have  been  added  by  added  to  the 

i  .j  -  x  j         •  -i    -i  -i      -i  j  saidregisters 

them  to  the  said  registers,  and  said  blanks  so  tilled  up 

and  certified,  shall,  within  forty-eight  hours  after  the  £hb?r£ua^ 

close  of  any  revision  of  registration,  be  left  by  one  of  elections- 

said  inspectors  at  the  bureau  of  elections  ;  and  it  shall 

be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of  elections  to 

immediately  enter,  or  cause  to  be  entered,  in  the  elec-  Entries  to  be 

'  made  in  "  bu- 

tion  bureau,  copy  of  the  registers  of  each  election  dis-  j^feg^..01 
trict,  on  file  in  his  office,  all  the  proper  and  necessary 
entries  requisite  to   make  said   copy  conform  to  said 
registers,  and  be  always  a  copy  thereof. 

*  So  in  the  original. 


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aii  registers  at       Sec.  25.  The  inspectors  of  election  in  each  election 

tilG  clOSG  of  GRCtl  • 

registration  day  district  in  said  city  and  county  of  New  York  on  each 
day  of  any  general  registration,  or  revision  of  regis- 
tration, and  before  adjourning,  shall,  on  each  of  the 
registers,  and  on  each  copy  or  copies  thereof  as  in  this 
act  it  is  provided  shall  on  each  of  said  days  be  made 
or  kept,  draw  in  ink  immediately  below  the  last  name 
entered  underneath  each  dwelling-place  and  below  the 
last-written  words  and  figures  entered  opposite  to  or 
against  such  last  name  in  each  column,  save  that  of 
"  residence,"  a  heavy  line  as  indicative  of  the  fact  that 
the  entering  of  names  on  the  said  registers  for  the  day 
mentioned  in  the  column  headed  "  date  of  application," 
and  opposite  to  or  against  the  name  of  the  last  person 
entered  under  any  dwelling-place  there  ceased. 


to  be  ruled  off 
after  the  last 
name  entered  to 
prevent  false 
entries. 


Inspectors  to 
make  and  sign 
certificates. 


Form  of  general 
registration. 


Sec.  26.  The  inspectors  of  election  in  each  election 
district  in  the  city  and  county  of  New  York  shall,  in  a 
place  to  be  provided  therefor  on  each  of  the  registers 
required  in  this  act,  fill  up,  date,  and  each  sign,  with 
his  name  and  place  of  residence,  the  appropriate  and 
proper  certificate,  which  shall  be  either  printed  or 
written,  and  for  a  general  registration  shall  be  in  the 
words  and  figures  following,  to  wit :  We,  the  under- 
signed inspectors  of  election,  in  the 

election  district  of  the  assembly 
district  of  the  city  and  county  of  New  York,  do  jointly 
and  severally  certify  that  at  the  general  registration  of 
voters  held  in  the  said  election  district,  on  the 

days  of  and  the 

days  of  in  the  year  ,  there 

were  registered  by  us  as  qualified  voters  in  the  said  elec- 
tion district,  the  names  which  in  this  book  are  entered  as 
of  said  days,  and  that  the  number  of  such  registered 
qualified  voters  was  and  is 


Dated,  New  York, 


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And  for  a  revision  of  any  general  registration,  said 
certificate  shall  be  in  the  words  and  figures  following, 


to  wit :  We,  the  undersigned  inspectors  of   election  in 
the  election  district  of  the 

assembly  district  of  the  city  and  county  of  New  York, 
do  jointly  and  severally  certify  that  at  the  revision  of 
the  last  general  registration  of  voters  held  in  said  elec- 
tion district,  on  the  days  of  ,  in 
the  year  of              "                   there  were  bv  us  added  Form  of  revision 

J  m  of  register. 

to  the  registered,  qualified  voters  of  said  election  dis- 
trict, the  names  which  in  the  registers  are  so  entered 
as  of  the  said  days,  and  that  such  number  was  and  is 

and  that  there  were  stricken 
from  the  registered  qualified  voters  of  said  election 
district,  the  names  which  in  the  register  appear  on  said 
days  to  have  been  stricken  off  and  erased  in  the  man- 
ner prescribed  by  law,  and  that  such  number  was  and 
is  leaving  the  total  number  of  regis- 

tered, qualified  voters  in  said  election  district  for  the 
next  ensuing  election  which 
is  the  number  of  names  now  borne  in  this  book  as  such 
qualified  voters  for  such  election. 

Dated,  New  York,  ,  18 


Sec.  27.  The  inspectors  of  election  in  each  election  inspectors  to  re- 
district  in  the  city  and  county  of  New  York  shall,  after  ofTefisWfor>py 

^  •>  '  use  on  election 

making  and  signing  either  of  the  aforesaid  certificates,  day- 
retain   and   carefully   preserve   all   the   said  registers 
provided  for  in  this  act — each  inspector  retaining  the 
bcok  which  he  made,  or  of  which  he  had  the  custody 
and  care  on  the  days  of  any  registration  or  revision  of 
registration — for  their  use  on  the  day  of  the  next  en- 
suing election.     The  "public  copy"  of  the  registers  pnmc  copy  of 
they  shall,  at  the  close  of  their  proceedings  on  each  wnenandnow 
day  of  any  general  registration,  and  upon  the  deter-  to  be  suspended- 
mination  of  their  proceedings  on  the  last  day  of  any 
revision  of  registration,  leave  suspended  in  the  place 
where  such  registration  or  revision  of  registration  was 
conducted,  where  it  shall  be  and  remain  until  the  next 


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meeting  of  the  said  inspectors,  whether  such  meeting 
be  for  the  purpose  of  registration,  revision  of  regis- 
tration, or  election,  to  the  end  that  the  same  may  be 
inspected  and  copied  by  any  elector  in  said  city  and 
county.  But  on  the  day  of  any  election  the  said  in- 
spectors shall  take  possession  of  said  public  copy,  and 
the  chairman  shall  closely  retain  the  same  through- 
public  copy,      out  the  said  day,  returning  it  to  the  chief  of  the  bureau 

how  disposed  .  r        ,  » 

of.  or  elections,  as  provided  m  this  act,  tor  the  return  or 

the  register  kept  by  him,  and  with  said  register ;  and 
said  copy  shall  be  by  the  said  chief  of  the  bureau  of 
elections  retained  and  preserved  and  hied  in  said 
bureau. 


Registers  to  be 
used  on  election 
day. 


Each  inspector 
to  make  use  of 


No  vote  to  be 
received  unless 
name  found  on 
three  registers. 


At  the  polls  the 
name  of  each 
voter  to  be  an- 
nounced. 


No  vote  to  be 
received  until 
three  inspectors 
have  found  the 
name  of  voter  on 
register,  etc. 


If  vote  is  re- 
ceived, three  in- 
spectors shall 
mark  the  names 
on  the  register. 


Inspectors  to 
note  votes  re- 
ccivcd  in  con- 
travention of 
this  section, 


Sec  28.  The  inspectors  of  election  in  each  election 
district  of  the  city  and  county  of  New  York  shall,  on 
the  day  of  any  election  therein,  have  with  them  at  the 
polling-place  in  said  district  the  registers  provided  for 
in  this  act.  They  shall  each  make  use  of  one  of  said 
registers  for  guidance  on  said  day,  and  no  vote  shall  be 
received  from  any  person  whose  name  shall  not  be 
found  by  at  least  three  of  them  to  be  upon  at  least 
three  of  the  said  registers  as  a  qualified  voter.  The 
chairman  of  said  inspectors  in  each  election  district 
shall,  if  present,  and  if  absent,  then  one  of  the  other 
inspectors,  shall,  upon  any  person  offering  to  vote,  an- 
nounce in  a  loud,  clear,  and  distinct  manner  the  name 
of  such  person,  and  no  ballots  shall  be  received  by 
either  of  the  inspectors,  or  deposited  in  any  of  the 
ballot-Doxes  until  at  least  three  of  the  said  inspectors 
shall,  as  herein  above  provided,  have  examined  and 
found  the  name  and  residence  of  such  person  and  have 
declared  the  same,  and  that  such  person  is  entered  as 
a  qualified  voter ;  when,  if  the  vote  of  said  person  is 
received,  at  least  three  of  the  inspectors  shall  write  in 
the  appropriate  column  bearing  the  heading  "  Toted," 
and  opposite  to  the  name  and  residence  of  such  person, 
the  word  a  Yes."  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  of  the 
inspectors  to  note  on  the  register  in  his  possession,  in 
a  suitable  and  separate  part  thereof,  the  name  and 
residence  of  each  and  every  person,  if  any,  whose  vote 
shall  be  received  in  contravention  of  the  provisions  of 


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this  section,  and  the  name  of  the  inspector,  or  inspect-  th^hSSSs. 
ors,  if  any,  who  shall  so  receive  or  deposit  in  the  ballot- 
boxes  or  either  of  them,  any  snch  vote  ;  and  it  shall 
further  be  the  duty  of  each  of  the  inspectors,  immedi- 
ately on  the  close  of  the  polls  on  the  day  of  election,  to  Register  to  be 

«/  r  «'  J        compared  on 

compare  the  said  registers  kept  by  them,  as  herein  pro-  closeofp°Ul!» 
vided,  and  attach  to  them  a  certificate  in  writing  that  andcertmed« 
the  same  are  correctly  checked,  and  within  twenty-four 
hours  after  the  completion  of  the  canvass  of  the  votes  cast  and  within 

,,.  i-ii  i         i  -i  twenty-four 

m  the  election  district  in  which  they  served,  to  leave  said  h0OT*aftf  can- 

J  '  vass  leave  regis- 

registers  at  the  office  of  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of  ter 
elections,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  file  and  preserve  the  at  bureau  of 
same,  as  provided  in  this  act.    And  in  no  election  dis-  filed  anlpre- 

7  L  served. 

trict  in  the  said  city  and  county  shall  any  inspector,  who  no  inspector  to 

i  -  ,  r       •  i  r     -i  •  i'     Part  Wlth  Pos" 

has  custody  or  charge  or  either  oi  tne  registers  in  this  session  of  the 

«/  o  o  register  until  he 

act  provided  for,  ever  permit  said  register  to  leave  his  mes  the  aam* 

possession  from  the  time  of  receiving  custody  of  the  same 

until  he  shall  file  the  same  as  provided  in  this  act,  save 

in  the  event  of  his  resignation  or  removal,  and  the  an-  or  if  he  resigns, 

.  ,    ,     .        ,  .  n    ,  .  deUvers  it  to  his 

pomtment   as    provided   m  this  act  oi  his  successor,  successor, 
when  he  shall  promptly  surrender  and  turn  over  the  same 
to  him. 

Sec.  29.  The  chief  of  the   bureau  of  elections  shall  chiefofthe 
from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  have  full  power  and 
authority  to  make  or  cause  to  be  made  such  full,  com- 
plete, and  accurate  copies  as  he  shall  deem  necessary,  of  SSIoTvotera, 
the  records  of  the  names,  residences,  age,  date,  and  cause 
of  death  of  each  male  person  who  shall  die  in  the  city 
and  county  of  New  York,  as  the  facts  in  respect  to  such 
death  shall  be  furnished  to,  or  the  said  records  shall  be 
kept  by,  the  register  of  records,  in  the  department  of 
police  or  board  of  health  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and  andkeePhtheffl 
snail  keep,  preserve,  and  file  in  his  office  all  such  copies 
of  said  record. 


Sec.  30.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  the  bureau 
of  elections  from  time  to  time,  as  he  shall  obtain  the 
names  and  facts  as  to  death  provided  in  the  preceding 
section,  to  so  arrange  the  names  of   all  male  persons  and  arrange  the 

o  r  n  ames  of  such 

twenty-one  years  of  age  and  upward,  who,  by  his  records,  deceasedvoters 
appeared  to  have  died  subsequently  to  the  passage  of  this 


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alphabetically 
by  assembly  dis- 
tricts with  resi- 
dences and  other 
details. 


and  furnish 
copy  of  such 
alphabetical 
record  to  each 


To  be  called  the 
"record  of 
deaths." 


Inspectors  on 
receiving  the 
"record  of 
deaths,"  to  at- 
tach same  to 
register. 


Register  to  be 
corrected  by 
**  record  of 
deaths," 


by  proper  entries 
under  several 
head*, 


and  drawing 
Li  nc  through 


act,  as  that  alphabetical  lists  by  assembly  districts,  with 
residences,  ages,  and  a  full  statement  of  all  particulars 
may,  at  any  time,  be  made  therefrom ;  and  from  the 
names  and  facts  so  arranged,  to  have  prepared  and 
made,  or  printed,  and  to  cause  to  be  delivered  to  each 
inspector  of  elections  in  each  election  district  in  the 
city  and  county  of  New  York,  on  or  before  the  or- 
ganization of  the  board  of  inspectors  in  each  dis- 
trict on  the  first  day  of  any  revision  of  registra- 
tion, an  alphabetical  record  of  the  male  persons 
twenty-one  years  of  age  and  upward,  who,  in  the 
assembly  district  in  which  the  election  district  in  which 
the  inspector  is  to  serve,  since  the  third  day  prior  to  the 
day  of  the  last  preceding  election,  and  within  at  least 
five  days  prior  to  any  such  first  day  of  revision  of  regis- 
tration, have  died.  Said  record  shall  be  known  and 
designated  as  a  "record  of  deaths,"  and  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  each  of  the  inspectors  of  election,  in 
each  election  district,  upon  the  receipt  of  such  record, 
to  securely  attach  the  same  to  the  inside  of  the  register 
in  his  custody,  to  the  end  that  it  may  be  preserved,  and 
on  the  first  day  of  any  meeting  of  the  inspectors  of 
election  in  any  election  district,  held  for  the  purpose 
of  a  revision  of  registration,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
each  inspector,  as  soon  as  the  organization  of  the 
board  of  inspectors  is  completed,  to  examine  the  register 
in  his  custody,  and  as  to  the  name  of  every  person  upon 
said  register,  who,  by  said  "  record  of  deaths,"  shall, 
by  a  coincidence  in  respect  to  said  name  and  facts, 
appear  to  have  deceased,  and  opposite  to  and  against 
every  such  name,  to  enter,  in  the  column  headed 
"  why  disqualified,"  the  word  "  dead,"  in  the  column 
headed  "  date  of  erasing  name,"  the  month,  day, 
and  year  of  such  erasing ;  and  in  the  column 
headed  "remarks"  the  words  "  stricken  from  regis- 
ters," adding  against  each  such  entry  made  in  the  col- 
umn of  "remarks"  the  initial  letters  of  the  name  of  the 
inspector  making  such  entry,  and  through  the  name 
of  every  person  so  stricken  from  the  registers,  and 
then  only,  shall  draw  a  line  as  indicative  that  such 
name  is  erased  from  the  register  of  that  election  dis- 
trict. 


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Sec.  31.  It  shall  further  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  gSSfJSSC* 
the  bureau  of  elections   to  prepare  by  assembly   dis-  3  death*»ord 
tricts,  in  the  manner  set  forth  in  the  preceding  section, 
an  additional  record  of  such  deaths  as  shall  have  oc- 
curred  subsequent   to    the   date  of    the   "record  of 
deaths "  provided   for  in   the   preceding   section,  and  When 
within  at  least  three  days  prior  to  the  day  of  any  such 
local  election  held  in  the  city  of  New  York.    Said  record 
shall  be   known   and    designated   as   an   "  additional  c,aiied"addition- 

«  al  i-ecord  of 

record  of  deaths,"  and  a  copy  thereof  shall,  on  or  be-  deaths'" 

fore  the  opening  of  the  polls  in  each  election  district 

on  the  day  of  any  such  local  election,  be  furnished  to 

each  inspector,  who  shall  securely  attach  the  same  to  and  famish 

the  inside  of  his  register,  to  the  end  that  it  may  be  S^ctorTobe 

o  7  «/  attached  to  reg- 

preserved,  and  he  have  the  same  during  the  day  of isten 
election  with  him  at  the  polling-place,  and  on  the  open- 
ing of  the  poll  shall  proceed  to  make  the  same  exami-  pn  opening  of 
nation,  entries,  letters,  and  lines  as  to  the  name  of  any  reiser  to  be 

7  '  7  J    corrected  by  the 

registered  person  found  upon  said  "  additional  record  recorliof deaths." 
of  deaths,"  as  is  provided  for  in  the  preceding  section 
in  the  case  of  a  name  of  a  registered  person  found  on 
the  "  record  of  deaths." 

Sec.  32.  The   "record   of   deaths,"   and   the  "  ad  di- "Record  of 

deaths,"  and 

tional  record  of  deaths,"  provided  for  in  this  act  and  ^?aofnal 
furnished  to  each  inspector,  shall  be  left  by  him  with  filed  with  chief 

1  7  J  of  bureau. 

the  chief  of  the  bureau  of  elections  at  the  time  and  in 
the  manner  provided  for  the  return  of  the  register  used 
by  him  on  the  day  of  any  local  election,  and  with  such 


register. 

Sec.  33.  From  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  it  From  passage  of 
6hall  be  the  duty  of  each  of  the  clerks  of  the  courts  of  of o^kndtS- 

miner  and  gen- 

oyer  and  terminer  and  general  and  special  sessions,  to  ^2toSstopmake 
prepare,  and,  on  or  before  the  fifth  day  of  each  and  bh&freports 
every  month,  to  file  with  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of 
elections,  a  certified  record  containing  the  name,  resi- 
dence, and  age  of  each  and  every  person  convicted  in  jjj 
each  of  said  courts  respectively  of  an  offence  punisha-  Sf 


bu- 
reau 


persons  con 
victed  of  crimes 
punishable  with 
or  impris- 

,  .,      .        ,       ,  ,  onment  in 

ble  by  death  or  imprisonment  m  a  state  prison,  during  state  prison, 

«/  1  .  stating  names 

the  month  immediately  preceding,  stating  the  alias  or  aud  aliases- 
aliases  of  every  such  person  if  known ;  the  offence  with  • 


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chhargedence  which  charged;  the  action  of  tJie  court;  and,  if  sen- 
The  sentence.  tenced,  the  sentence  imposed,  and  whether  confined  in  a 
KnrtamSde-  state  prison  or  penitentiary.  Any  clerk  of  either  of  said 
courts  who  shall  fail,  neglect,  or  refuse  to  comply  with 
the  provisions  or  requirements  of  this  section  shall,  for 
each  and  every  such  offence,  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor. 


Qualified  voters 
on  days  of  regis- 
tration and 
election, 


challenge  and 
contest  the 
right  to  regis- 
trate  or  vote. 


and  may  require 
any  name  to  be 
marked  for  chal- 
lenge, and  may 
be  heard  by  in- 
spectors as  to  cor- 
rections of  regis- 
tera 


Sec.  34.  Any  person  who  is  a  qualified  voter  in  the 
city  and  county  of  New  York  may,  upon  any  day  of 
registration,  or  revision  of  registration,  or  of  election, 
challenge  and  contest  the  right  of  any  person  to  be 
registered  in  any  election  district,  or  to  vote  at  any 
poll  in  the  said  city  or  county,  or  may  require  the 
name  of  any  registered  person  to  be  marked  for  chal- 
lenge, and  on  any  such  day  or  days  shall  be  entitled 
to  be  heard  by  the  inspectors  of  election  in  any  election 
district  in  relation  to  corrections  of  or  additions  to  their 


registers. 


Board  of  police 
to  designate, 
hire,  and  fit  up, 
warm,  and  light 
all  polling- 
places. 


Polling-places 
to  be  in  most 
public,  orderly, 
and  convenient, 
part  of  district, 


but  not  in  any 
building  where 
liquor  is  sold  or 
has  been  sold 
within  sixty  days. 


To  be  lighted 
with  pjas  unless, 
etc., 


and  must  afford 
a  space  of  twelve 
feet  square  in 
front  of  ballot- 
boxes. 


Sec.  35.  Hereafter  "  the  board  of  police "  of  the 
city  of  New  York  shall  designate  and  appoint  the  place 
of  registry  and  polling-place  in  each  of  the  election 
districts  of  the  city  and  county  of  New  York,  and  shall 
hire  all  such  places,  and  cause  the  same  to  be  fitted 
up,  warmed,  lighted,  and  cleansed,  and  the  work  of 
registration  shall  be  carried  on  at  the  places  so  desig- 
nated for  such  purposes.  But,  in  each  election  dis- 
trict, such  place  shall  be  in  the  most  public,  orderly, 
and  convenient  portions  of  the  district,  and  no  build- 
ing or  part  of  building  shall  be  designated  or  used  as 
a  place  of  registry,  revision  of  registration,  or  polling- 
place  in  which,  or  in  any  part  of  which,  spirituous  or 
intoxicating  liquor  is  sold,  or  has  been  sold  within 
sixty  days  next  preceding  the  time  of  using  the  same ; 
and  no  place  shall  be  designated  or  used  for  any  such 
purpose  without  the  same  shall  be  well  lighted  with 
gas — unless  there  shall  no  place  in  the  district  be  ob- 
tainable which  is  so  lighted — and  the  unoccupied  space 
allowed  in  front  of  the  ballot-boxes,  in  any  polling- 
place,  shall  be  equivalent  to  a  room  at  least  twelve  feet 
square. 


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Sec.  36.  At  every  election  held  in  the  city  and  county  Each  political 

J  J  *i    party  to  have 

of  New  York,  each  political  party  shall  have  the  right  to  gSJSFggt 
designate,  place,  and  keep  a  challenger  at  each  place  of  ffiion  and  elec" 
registration,  revision  of  registration  and  voting,  who  shall 
be    assigned   such  position  immediately  adjoining  the 
inspectors  of  election  as  will  enable  him  to  see  each  in  position  near 

*■  by  the  inspectors. 

person  as  he  offers  to  register  or  vote,  and  who  shall  be 
protected  in  the  discharge  of  his  duty  by  the  inspectors  of 
election  and  the  police.    Each  political  party  may  remove  inspectors- 
any  challenger  appointed  by  it,  and  all  vacancies  which,  challengers 

»  D  1  L  »       '  '  may  be  removed 

from  any  cause,  shall  arise,  shall  be  filled  by  the  same  8iea8?Xj£B 
party,  power,  and  authority  as  conferred  the  original  party' 
appointment. 

Sec.  37.  No  person  who  is  registered  in  one  election  No person  shall 
district  shall  register,  or  cause  himself  to  be  registered,  in  district  while 

,    ,  .  .        the  registration 

another  district,  while   any  prior  registration  remains  {^tremo^ 
unerased,  or  in  any  other  manner  than  is  in  this  act  unerased- 
provided. 

Sec  38.  For  all  powers,  authority,  and  duties  in  this  mXrr?yeS-f 
act   prescribed  for  or  conferred  upon,  and  all  action  SeSrere' 
required  of  inspectors  of  election  or  of  a  board  of  said 
inspectors  of  election,  *or  a  board  of  said  inspectors, 
save  where  such  authority  or  action  is  specifically  allowed 
to  each  of  said  inspectors,  the  concurrence  or  assent  of  a 
majority  of  all  the  inspectors  of  election  in  any  election  Inwhatcases 
district  must  in  all  cases  be  obtained. 

Sec  39.  The  several  offices  of  inspectors  of  election  inspectors  and 
and  poll-clerks,  in  this  act  named  and  created,  are  and  to  be  election 

r  7  t  district  officers. 

shall  be  in  all  courts  and  proceedings  deemed  and  held 
respectively  to  be  election  district  offices,  and  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  said  inspectors  of  elections  and  poll- 
clerks  respectively,  or  a  majority  of  the  said  inspectors, 
to  be  in  constant  attendance  during  the  hours  and 
times     fixed     for     the    discharge    of     their    several  duty  to  be  con- 

stant. 

duties. 

Sec  40.  All    data  and   statistics,  and    all  registers, 
poll-books,  and  records  of  every  kind  and  nature  which,  Data,  statistics, 

17  ^  #        registers,  books, 

under  this  act,  or  under  any  law  of  this  state,  or  which  papers,  etc., 

*  So  in  the  original. 


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shall  be  during 
office  hours  open 
to  inspection. 


in  compliance  with  any  direction,  resolution,  or  order 
of  "  the  board  of  police  "  of  the  city  of  New  York  are 
or  may  be  required  to  be  made,  ascertained,  or  kept  by, 
or  returned  to  or  filed  with  either  the  chief  of  the 
bureau  of  elections  or  the  "register  of  records,"  in  the 
board  of  health,  shall  at  times,  during  office  hours,  be 
open  to  the  inspection,  examination,  comparison,  and 
copying  of  any  citizen  or  elector,  free  of  any  charge 
whatsoever. 


Officers  of  elec- 
tion, etc., 


shall  during  a 
certain  period, 


have  full  power 
and  authority  to 
canvass  his  dis- 
trict, 


and  to  make 
full  inquiry,  etc., 
into  qualifica- 
tion of  male  resi- 
dents to  vote. 


Such  power  to 
cease  with  his 
term  of  office. 


Sec.  41.  Any  inspector  of  election,  poll-clerk,  or 
other  officer  of  elections,  or  any  challenger  appointed  in 
compliance  with  the  provisions  of  this  act,  or  any  person 
designated  as  provided  in  this  act  to  be  present 
at  the  canvass  of  any  ballots,  shall  at  any  time  between 
the  Tuesday  five  weeks  preceding  the  day  of  any  general 
or  local  election  held  in  the  city  and  county  of 
New  York,  and  ten  days  after  the  first  official  promul- 
gation by  the  board  of  county  canvassers  of  the  canvass, 
declaration,  and  certificate  of  the  result  of  any 
such  election,  have  full  power  and  authority  to  make  a 
thorough  and  effective  canvass  of  the  election  district 
in  and  for  which  he  has  been  or  was  designated  to  serve 
and  act,  upon  any  day  of  registration,  revision  of 
registration,  or  election,  and  to  make  full  inquiry 
respecting  any  and  every  male  resident  of  any  dwelling, 
building,  or  other  place  of  abode  in  any  such 
election  district,  his  age,  term  of  residence,  and 
qualifications  as  a  voter ;  but  the  power  and  authority  by 
this  section  conferred  upon  any  inspector  of  election, 
poll-clerk,  or  other  officer  of  election,  or  any  challenger 
or  person  designated  to  watch  the  canvass  of  ballots,  shall 
wholly  cease  upon  his  resignation  or  removal  from  the 
office  or  position  to  which  he  was  appointed,  or  for  which 
he  was  designated. 


Special  election 
in  a  portion  of 
the  city,  same 
registration  as 


Seo.  42.  If  at  any  time  after  the  first  general  regis- 
tration of  voters  had  and  made  under  the  provisions  of 
this  act,  a  special  election  shall  be  held  in  any  portion  of 
the  city  and  county  of  New  York,  the  same  re- 
vision of  registration  shall  be  had  and  made  for  any 
such  portion  of  said  city  and  county,  and  at  the  same 


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intervals  of  time  and  times  preceding  the  day  of  any 

such  special  election,  and  in  the  same  manner  as  if  the 

said  election  was  a  local  election  in,  for,  and  throughout  eiertp^throSh- 

the  said  city  and  county,  and  each  and  every  of  the 

provisions  of  this  act  not  inconsistent  with  the  terms  of 

this  section,  shall  apply  with  as  full  force  and  effect  to 

any  such    special    election  or  revision  of  registration 

therefor,  as  if  the  same  was  for  a  local  election  in,  for, 

and  throughout  the  said  city  and  county. 

Sec.  43.  Hereafter  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  of 
the  authorities,  officers,  or  agents  of  the  city  or  county 
government,  in  the  city  and  county  of  New  York,  to 
number  or  renumber  anv  street,  avenue,  alley,  lane,  road,  street  numbers 

"  not  to  be  altered. 

or  way  in   the  city  or  county  of   JNew  York,  or  to 
in  anywise  change  or  alter  any  such  number,  save  between  save  between 
the  first  d* 
of  any  year. 


the  first   day  of  May  and  the  first  day  of   October  octa&andlat 


Sec.  44.  In  each  election  district  in  the  city  and 
county  of  New  York,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
inspectors  of  election  to  immediately  after  the  close  of 
the  polls  on  the  day  of  any  election,  before  proceeding 
with  the  canvass  of  the  ballots  in  any  box,  and  while 
the  poll-clerks  are  canvassing  their  books,  to  write  in 
ink  opposite  to  and  against  the  name  of  each  person  Regist?red 


per- 

entered  in  their  registers,  who  is  not  shown  by  said  toTemarke^fn 

,  *  register. 

registers   to    have  voted,  and   in  the  column  headed 

"  voted,"  the  word  "  no,"  so  that  the  said  column  may 

be  wholly  filled  up,  and  the  said  inspectors  shall  then 

compare    the    said    registers,  make    them  agree,  and 

ascertain  the  number  of  persons  who  by  them  are  shown  Sn™^oti^tobe 

to  have  voted  at  that  poll  that  day,  and  when  they  have  proclaimed  at 

J  1  J  each  poll 

made  comparison  and  ascertained  such  fact,  the  chairman 
of  the    board   of   inspectors,  or,  in  his  absence,  the 
inspector  acting  as  such,  shall  announce  the  same  in  a  inaioudvoice. 
loud  voice. 

Sec.  45.  The  poll-clerk  at  each  poll  in  the  city  and 
county  of  New  York,  shall  keep  in  ink  a  poll-list,  in 
books  to  be  prepared  and  furnished  for  that  purpose,  be°prep\r^^ 


and    shall    contain    a   column  headed  u  residence,"  a 


kept  in  ink. 


column  headed  "  name  of  voter,"  and  as  many  additional 
columns  as  there  are  boxes  kept  at  the  election.  The 
wnatto  contain.  headings   of   &e   additional  coiumns  silan  correspond 

respectively  with  the  names  and  numbers  of  the  boxes  so 
kept. 


Form  of. 


Sec.  46.  The  poll-books  referred  to  in  the  preceding 
section  shall  be  in  forms  as  follows  : 


What  entries 


to  be  made 


therein. 


POLL-LIST  OF  VOTERS. 

ELECTION  DISTRICT,  ASSEMBLY  DISTRICT. 


HO. 

RESIDENCE. 

NAME  OF  VOTER. 

REMARKS. 

(Here  put  in  addi- 

tional columns.) 

The  residence  of  each  elector  voting  shall  be  entered 
by  each  poll-clerk  in  the  column  of  his  poll-list  headed 
"  residence,"  and  the  name  of  each  such  elector  in  the 
column  headed  "  name  of  voter,"  and  opposite  the 
residence  and  name  of  any  such  elector  in  each  additional 
column  provided  for  in  the  preceding  section,  and 
corresponding  in  its  heading  with  the  name  and  number 
of  a  box  in  which  a  ballot  of  the  elector  shall  have  been 
deposited,  shall  be  written  a  check  or  mark  similar  to  the 
letter  V,  and  in  each  such  additional  column  correspond- 
ing in  its  heading  with  the  name  and  number  of  box  in 
which  no  ballot  of  the  elector  shall  have  been  deposited, 
shall  be  written  the  word  "  no."  In  the  column  of 
"  remarks,"  opposite  the  name  of  each  person  challenged, 
shall  be  noted  the  oath  or  oaths  offered  and  taken  by  any 
such  person.  * 

Sec.  47.  As  soon  as  the  poll  of  an  election  shall  have 
iSrobeedtooan-    been  finally  closed,  the  inspectors  of  election,  in  their 
several  election  districts,  shall  immediately,  and  at  the 


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place  of  the  poll,  proceed  to  canvass  the  votes.  Such 

canvass  shall  be  public,  and  shall  not  be  adjourned  or  &^ut\djonm- 

postponed  until   it   shall  have   been   fully  completed, 

and  the  several  statements  hereinafter  required  to  be  statements 

made  and  signed. 

made  by  the  inspectors  shall  have  been  made  out  and 

signed  by  them.     No  vote  shall  be  received,  nor  shall 

any  ballot  be  counted  or  canvassed,  nor  shall  any  state-  ™lSlorcan" 

menfs   of   votes,    announcement,   or    proclamation,   in  mad^hnentho 

this  act  required,  be  made  at  any  time  when  the  main  fn^jace^11011' 

entrance  to  the  room  in  which  the  election  is  held  shall  structed. 

be  closed  in  such  a  manner  as  to  prevent  ingress  and 

egress,  but  the  said  inspectors  maty  station  one  or  more 

officers  at  such  entrance  to  exclude  disorderly  persons;  Dfeorteriyper- 

•f     1  '  sons  may  be  ex- 

nor  shall  any  such  duties  be  performed  unless  at  least  clutled- 

six   persons,   if    so   many   claim    that   privilege,   are  what  number  to 

n  -.  ,  -  hi- present  to 

allowed  to   be  present  and  so  near  that  they  can  sec  witness canvass, 
whether  the  duties  of  the  said  inspectors  are  faithfully 
performed.     Each  candidate,  for  any  office  to  be  filled  ^dSjSSf8 
at  the  election,  may,  by  a  certificate  in  writing  signed  Jreaent 
by  him,  designate  one  person  for  each  election  district 
in  which  he  is  a  candidate,  to  be  present  at  the  canvass  Rigntsofi>er- 

7  1  sonasodesig- 

of  the  ballots  containing  the  names  of  the  persons  prSntand  wit- 
designated  for  that  office.  The  inspectors  of  election  nesscanvass' 
and  the  police  or  other  officers  attending  at  such  elec- 
tion district  specified  in  said  certificate,  shall  make  a 
passage  for  such  person  to  the  said  inspectors,  and  the 
said  inspectors  shall  permit  him  to  be  present  at  the 
canvass  of  all  the  ballots  in  the  box  containing  the 
ballots  for  the  office  specified  in  the  said  certificate, 
and  so  near  to  them  that  he  can  see  that  such  canvass 
and  the  statement  required  of  the  votes  found  in  each 
box  are  correctly  made.  And  no  inspector  of  election,  or  and  be  protected, 
board  of  inspectors,  or  police  or  other  officer,  shall  allow 
such  person  to  be  molested  or  removed  during  the  canvass 
of  such  ballots,  or  until  such  statement  has  been  made, 
completed,  and  signed,  unless  he  shall  be  personally  guilty 
of  fraudulent  or  disorderly  conduct. 

Skc.  48.  The   canvass   shall   commence  by  a    com-  canvass  to  com- 

*>  iiieiice, 

parison  of  the  poll-lists,  from  the  commencement,  and  how to Pr°srcss» 
a  correction  of  any  mistakes  that  may  be  found  therein, 
and  such  comparison  shall  be  continued  until  the  poll- 


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lists  agree  as  to  the  number  of  ballots  deposited  in 
each  box ;  when  they  have  been  made  to  agree,  one  of 
SinoiScffiSciy  the  inspectors  shall  publicly  announce,  in  a  loud  voice, 
the  number  of  ballots  deposited  in  each  box  as  shown  by 
the  poll-lists. 

?penesd^nlcan-  Sec.  49.  The  boxes  shall  then  be  opened,  and  the 
ballots  therein  canvassed,  in  the  order  prescribed  in 
this  section,  and  the  canvass  of  the  ballots  found  in 
one  box  shall  be  completed  before  another  box  is 
opened.  The  boxes  shall  be  canvassed  in  the  following- 
order  : 

Order  of.  1.  President. 

2.  General. 

3.  Congress. 

4.  Senate. 

5.  Assembly. 

6.  City. 

7.  School. 

8.  Justices. 


Sec.  50.  When  a  box  is  opened,  the  ballots  con- 
tained therein  shall  be  taken  out  and  counted  uno- 
pened, except  so  far  as  to  ascertain  that  each  ballot  is 
single.  If  two  or  more  ballots  shall  be  found  so  folded 
together  as  to  present  the  appearance  of  a  single  ballot 
they  shall  be  destroyed,  if  the  whole  number  of  ballots 
exceeds  the  whole  number  of  votes,  as  shown  by  the  poll- 
lists,  and  not  otherwise. 

Ballots  found  in       SeC.  51.  No    ballot    properly  indorsed,  found    in  a 

the  wrong  box,  .  i'  '  i"  j 

how  treated.  box  different  from  that  designated  by  its  indorsement, 
shall  be  rejected,  but  shall  be  counted  in  the  same 
manner  as  if  found  in  the  box  designated  by  such  in- 
dorsement ;  provided  that  the  counting  of  such  ballot 
or  ballots  shall  not  produce  an  excess  over  the  number 
of  ballots  deposited  in  the  box,  as  shown  by  the  poll- 
lists. 


First  duty  on 
opening  box. 


Number  of 
votes  compared 
with  poll-lists. 


in  raw  or  bkcmb      Sec.  52.   I  f  a  greater  number  of   ballots  shall  be 
ballot*    °      found  in  a  box  than  is  required  by  the  correspondent 
columns  of  the  poll-lists,  all  the  ballots  shall   be  re- 


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placed  in  the  box,  and  one  of  the  said  inspectors  to  be  de-  proceeding 
signated  by  the  board  shall,  without  seeing  the  same,  and 
with  his  back  to  the  box,  publicly  draw  out  and  destroy 
as  many  ballots  unopened  as  shall  be  equal  to  such  excess. 


Process  of  can- 
vassing. 


Sec.  53.  The  board  shall  then  proceed  to  canvass 
and  estimate  the  votes  in  the  following  manner :  The 
said  inspectors  shall  open  the  ballots,  and  place  those 
which  contain  the  same  names  together,  so  that  the  Jp^tobe 
several  kinds  shall  be  in  separate  piles  or  on  separate  hovv  aiTan^ed- 
files.  One  of  the  said  inspectors  shall  then  take  the 
kind  of  ballots  which  appears  to  be  the  greatest  in  order  and  man- 

c  ner  of  counting. 

number  and  count  them  by  tens,  carefully  examining 
each  name  on  each  of  said  ballots.     Such  inspector  By  tens, 
•shall  then  pass  ten  ballots  to  the  inspector  sitting  next 
to  him,  who  shall  count  them  in  the  same   manner  by  three  inspec- 

'  '  tors  in  succes- 

and  he  shall  then  pass  them  to  the  third  inspector,  slon- 
who  shall  also  count  them  in  the  same  manner.    The  tTutyofnspector' 
third  inspector  shall  then  call  the  names  of  the  per- 
sons named  in  the  ballots,  and  the  offices  for  which 
they  are  designated,  and  the  poll-clerks  shall  tally  the  ks* 
votes  for  each  of  such  persons.     The  fourth  inspector  Fourth  inspector, 

r  1  duty  of. 

shall  watch  the  proceedings  of  the  other  inspectors 
and  the  poll-clerks,  and  at  his  option  may  perform 
the  same  duties  in  respect  to  the  canvass  as  are  pre- 
scribed for  the  third  inspector,  or,  in  case  of*  the 
absence  of  a  poll-clerk,  may  perform  his  duties.    When  Poii-cierks  to 

1  "   x  compare  tallies, 

the  counting  of  each  kind  of  ballots  shall  be  com-  the  m?mble? in  a 
pleted,    the    poll-clerks    shall    compare    their    tallies  loudvolce- 
together  and  ascertain  the  total  number  of  ballots  of 
that  kind  so  canvassed,  and  when  they  agree  upon  the 
number,  one  of  them  shall  announce  it,  in  a  loud  voice,  Further  order  of 

canvassing. 

to  the  inspectors.  The  kind  of  ballots  which  appear 
to  be  next  greatest  in  number,  and  afterwards  each  of 
the  other  kind  of  ballots  in  succession,  shall  then  be 
canvassed  in  the  same  manner.  The  ballots  contain- 
ing names  partly  from  one  kind  of  ballots  and  partly 
from  another,  being  those  usually  called  "split  tick-  spirt  tickets,  etc. 
ets,"  and  those  from  which  the  name  of  a  person  prop- 
er to  be  voted  for  on  such  ballots  has  been  omitted  or 
erased,  usually  called  "scratched  tickets,"  shall  then  ^{^when, 
be  canvassed  separately  by  one  of  the  inspectors  sit-  whomcfn^ssde, 


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manner  of.       ting  between  two  of   the  other  inspectors,  which  in- 
spector shall  call  each  name  to  the  poll-clerks,  and  the 
office  for  which  it  is  designated,  the  other  inspectors 
K?pS?kSf  looking  at  the  ballot  at  the  same  time,  and  the  poll- 
compare  tallies     clerks  makipg  n6te  of  the   samc>     When  all  the  ballots 

found  in  the  box  have  been  canvassed  in  this  manner, 
the  poll-clerks  shall  compare  their  tallies  together  and 
ascertain  the  total  number  of  votes  received  by  each 
candidate,  and  when  they  agree  upon  the  numbers, 
and nnnounce in  0]ie  0f  them  shall  announce,  in  a  loud  voice,  to  the  in- 

a  lop'i  voice.  '  1  i  • 

each«md^iat°er  specters,  the  number  of  votes  received  by  each  candi- 
on^ckkindof   dftto^  on   cach  ()f  thc  kinds  of  ballots  containing  his 

name,  the  number  received  by  him  on  the  "split"  and 
"  scratched  "  tickets,  and  the  total  number  of  votes  re- 
case  of  excess  of  Ceived  bv  him.    If,  after  the  ballots  in  any  box  have - 

ballots  in  box.  -  J 

been  opened  or  canvassed,  the  whole  number  of  them 
shall  be  found  to  exceed  the  whole  number  of  votes  re- 
quired by  the  corresponding  columns  of  the  poll-lists, 
Proceedings  in.  the  said  inspectors  shall  return  all  the  ballots  into  the  box, 
and  shall  thoroughly  mingle  the  same,  and  one  of  the  in- 
spectors to  be  designated  by  the  board,  shall,  without  sec- 
,  ing  the  same  and  with  his  back  to  the  box,  publicly  draw- 
out  of  such  box  so  many  of  such  ballots  as  shall  be 
equal  to  the  excess,  which  shall  be  forthwith  destroyed  ; 
but  if  the  ballots  have  been  canvassed,  the  votes  for  the 
persons  named  therein  shall  hist  be  deducted  from  the 
votes  entered  for  such  person  on  the  tallies. 

Sec.  54.  Thc  canvass  of  the  ballots  found  in  any 
box  shall  be  completed  by  ascertaining  how  many  bal- 
lots of  thc  same  kind,  corresponding  in  respect  to  the 
names  of  the  persons  thereon  and  the  offices  for  which 
they  are  designated,  have  been  received  ;  and  the  re- 
sult being  found,  the  said  inspectors  shall  securely 
paste  or  attach  to  each  statement  of  such  canvass 
■Ae-Ktul  hereinafter  directed  to  be  made  one  ballot  of  each 
kind  found  to  have  been  given  for  the  officers  to  be 
chosen  at  such  election;  and  they  shall  state  in  words 
at  full  length,  immediately  opposite  such  ballot,  and 
written  partly  on  such  ballot  and  partly  on  thc  paper 
to  which  it  shall  be  pasted  or  attached,  the  whole 
ho™:-      '  numl)er  0f  aH  the  ballots  that  were  received  which  cor- 


.A  ballot  of  eneh 
kind  to  be  parted 
on  <:w:h  bta 
incut. 


/\nd  rrrti 
\\o  mndf 


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respond  with  the  one  so  pasted  or  attached,  so  that  one  of 
each  kind  of  the  ballots  received  at  such  election  for  the 
officers  then  to  be  chosen,  shall  be  pasted  or  attached  to 
such  statement  of  such  canvass.    If  only  one  ballot  of  5 uSfotEffiund. 
any  kind  shall  be  found  in  the  box,  it  shall  be  pasted  or 
attached  to  the  statement  to  be  delivered  to  the  clerk  of 
the  board  of  supervisors,  and  if  only  two  ballots  of  any  if  two  only, 
kind  arc  found  in  the  box,  one  shall  be  pasted  or  attached  what  proceed- 
to  the  statement  to  be  delivered  to  the  clerk  of  the  board 
of  supervisors,  and  the  other  to  the  statement  to  be  de- 
livered to  the  county  cleric.    They  shall  also  paste  or  ah  ballot*  reject- 

J  J  1  e  l  as  defective  to 

attacli  all  the  ballots  rejected  by  them  as  being  defective  JUgf* t0 statc" 
in  whole  or  in  part,  to  the  statement  to  be  delivered  to  the 
clerk  of  the  board  of  supervisors. 


any  box  are  can- 
any  box  shall  have  been  completed,  and  the  poll-clerks  vaS9ed* 
shall  have  announced  to  the  inspectors  the  total  num- 
ber of  votes  received  bj'  each  candidate,  the  chairman 
of  the  board  of  inspectors  of  election,  or  in  his  absence 
the  inspector  acting  as  such,  shall  proclaim  in  a  loud  Proclamation  to 

1  o  7  *  be  made  in  a  loud 

voice,  the  total  number  of  votes  received  by  each  of  voice- 

the  persons  voted  for  upon  the  ballots  found  in  that 

box,  and  the  office  for  which  they  are  designated,  and 

such  proclamation  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  snohprnniamn- 

1  1  tion  evidence  of 

result  of  the  canvass  of  such  ballots.  the  result. 

Sec.  5G.    The   said   inspectors  shall  make  triplicate  Triplicate  statp- 

.  .  .  j.  meiits  of  the  i  e- 

statemcnts  or  the  result  or  the  canvass,  and  estimate  or  suit  to  be  made. 

the  votes.    Each  of  the  statements  shall  contain  a  cap-  contentsof. 

tion.  stating  the  day  on  which,  and  the  number  of  the 

election  district,  and   assembly  district,  and   the  city 

and  county  in  relation  to  which  such  statement  shall 

be  made,  and  the  time  of  opening  and  closing  the  polls 

of  such  election  district.    It  shall  also  contain  a  state-  Contents  of. 

incut  showing  the  whole  number  of  votes  given  for  each 

person,  designating  the  office  for  which  they  were  g'nen, 

which   statement   shall   be   written,   or  partly  written 

and  partly  printed,  in  words  at  length;  and  at  the  end  in^jwjsat^ 

thereof  a  certificate  that  such  statement  is  correct  in  SSiSoffcach 

all  respects;  which  certificate  and  each  sheet  of  paper  Sra^ifpoif50" 

forming  part  of  the  statement  shall  be  subscribed  by 


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Inspectors  de- 
clining to  sign  to 
etate  reasons  in 
writing. 


Statements  to  be 
inclosed,  sealed 
with  wax, 


and  how  sub- 
scribed  en  the 
outside. 


One  directed  to 
clerk  of  board  of 
supervisors,  one 
to  the  county 
>  lerk,  one  to 
chief  of  bureau  of 
elections. 

Tallies  inclosed 
in  same  manner 
and  directed 
wie  to  mayor, 
the  other  to 
chief  of  bureau 
of  elections. 


the  said  inspectors  and  poll-clerks.  If  any  inspector 
or  poll-clerk  shall  decline  to  sign  any  return,  he  shall 
state  his  reasons  therefor  in  writing,  and  a  copy  thereof 
signed  by  him  shall  be  inclosed  with  each  return. 
Each  of  the  statements  shall  be  inclosed  in  an  envel- 
ope; which  shall  then  be  securely  sealed  with  wax,  and 
each  of  the  inspectors  and  each  of  the  poll-clerks  shall 
write  his  name  across  every  fold  at  which  the  envelope, 
if  unfastened,  could  be  opened,  and  across  the  seals 
thereon.  One  of  the  envelopes  shall  be  directed  on 
the  outside  to  the  clerk  of  the  board  of  supervisors, 
another  to  the  county  clerk,  and  the  third  to  the  chief 
of  the  bureau  of  elections.  Each  set  of  tallies  shall 
also  be  inclosed,  securely  sealed,  and  signed  in  like 
manner,  and  one  of  the  envelopes  shall  be  directed  on 
the  'outside  to  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of  elections,  and 
the  other  to  the  mayor.  On  the  outside  of  every  en- 
velope shall  be  indorsed  whether  it  contains  the  state- 
ment or  the  tallies,  and  for  what  election  and  assembly 
district. 


stat™rents°to  be  Sec.  57.  Within  twenty-four  hours  after  the  several 
made'  statements  shall  have  been  subscribed,  one  of  the  said 

By  whom  and  at,  inspectors  shall  deliver  to  the  clerk  of  the  board  of 

what  time.  .  ..  -i  •  -i         -i  •  i 

supervisors  the  statement  directed  to  him  ;  another  in- 
spector shall  deliver  to  the  county  clerk  the  statement 
directed  to  him,  and  a  third  inspector  shall  deliver  to 
the  chief  of  the  bureau  of  elections  the  statement  di- 
Taiues.  by  whom  rected  to  him.  One  of  the  poll-clerks  shall  deliver  to 
the  mayor  the  tallies  directed  to  him,  and  the  other 
poll-clerk  shall  deliver  to  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of 
elections  the  tallies  directed  to  him. 


Poll-lists  to  be 
certified  and 
filed. 


One  with  county 
clerk,  the  other 
with  bnroqp  of 
elections. 


Sec.  58.  The  poll-lists  kept  at  such  elections  shall  be 
certified,  in  writing,  by  both  poll-clerks,  to  be  a  true  and 
correct  list  of  the  votes  cast  at  the  said  election,  in 
their  respective  election  districts,  and  within  twenty- 
four  hours  of  the  close  of  the  canvass  shall  be  filed  by 
such  poll-clerks,  the  one  in  the  office  of  the  county  clerk, 
the  other  in  the  office  of  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of  elec- 
tions, and  shall  he  there  preserved. 


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Sec.  59.  The  remaining  ballots,  not  so  pasted  or  at-  Remaining  bai- 

°  '  1  lots  destroyed. 

tached  to  said  statements,  as  hereinbefore  provided, 
shall  be  destroyed,  and  the  board  of  inspectors  shall 
be  dissolved. 

Sec.  60.   In  case  any  officer  to  whom  any  of  the  Deliveries,  how 

J  #  J  made. 

papers  in  the  preceding  sections  are  directed  to  be 
delivered  shall  be  absent  from  his  office,  the  same  may 
be  delivered  to  the  person  authorized  in  such  case  to 
attend  to  his  official  duties,  and  the  officer  or  person 
to  whom   any   envelope   containing  any  statement  or 
tally,  or  to  whom  any  register  or  copy  thereof,  or  poll- 
list  shall  be  delivered  as  in  this  act  provided,  shall  give 
a  receipt  therefor  to  the  inspector  or  poll-clerk  from  Receipts  to  be 
whom  the  same  is  received,  and  such  receipt  shall  be  Slven" 
filed  by  said  inspector  or  poll-clerk  in  the  office  of  the  Receipts  to  be 
comptroller,  before  any  payment  for  his  services  shall  compS-oier6  of 
be  made. 

Sec.  61.  The   envelopes   delivered   to   the   clerk   of  Envelope  filed 

-  A  with  clerk  of 

the  board  of  supervisors  shall  be  kept  sealed,  and  shall  vfsa0rrds?obUeperj 
not  be  opened   until  the   same   are  produced  before  ffilof couSy 

■)■,-,/»•'  ,  ,  ini       canvassers,  ana 

the  board  or  county  canvassers,  when   they   shall  be  then  to  be 

«/  7  «/  marked. 

opened  for  the  canvassing  of  the  returns,  and  when  so  whomandby 
opened,  the  presiding  officer  of  the  said  board  shall 
mark  each   separate  sheet  of  the  statements  with  the 
initials  of  his  name. 


Sec.  62.  The  envelopes  delivered  to  the  county  clerk  The  like, 
shall  be  kept  sealed  and  unopened  until  the  same  shall 
be  required  to  be  opened  by  the  board  of  county  can- 
vassers, or  other  lawful  authority ;  and  when  so  opened, 
the  officer  or  person  opening  the  same  shall  mark  each 
separate  sheet  of  the  statement  with  the  initials  of  his 
name. 

Sec.  63.   The  board  of  supervisors  of  the  county  of  Board  of  county 

^  canvassers. 

New  York  shall  be  the  board  of  county  canvassers,  and 
it  shall  be  their  duty  to  finally  canvass,  declare,  and  duty°f- 
certify  the  result  of  every  election  hereafter  held  in  the 
city  and  county  of  New  York.    Such  canvass,  decla- 
ration, and  certification  shall  be  made  and  conducted  How  performed. 


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under  the  existing  provisions  of  law,  not  inconsistent 
with  this  act,  so  far  as  the  same  are  applicable. 

mccthS!ration  ^EC-  If  at  any  general  registration  of  voters,  or 
at  any  meeting  of  inspectors  of  election  held  for  such 
purpose  or  for  a  revision  thereof,  as  provided  in  this 

fairly pereorint-  act,  any  person  shall  falselv  personate   an  elector  or 

ins  an  Elector  or  v  ■ 

?Sci-ingto  other  person,  and  register  or  attempt  to  offer  to  regis- 
ter, in  the  name  of  such  elector  or  other  person;  or  if 
any  person  shall  knowingly  or  fraudulently  register,  or 
offer  or  attempt,  to  make  application  to  register,  in  or 

uncicr  the  name  under  the  name  of  any  other  person,  or  in  or  under 
any  false,  assumed,  or  fictitious  name,  or  in  or  under 
any  name  not  his  own  ;  or   shall  knowingly  or  fraud- 

w  register  in  two  ulently  register  in  two  election  districts  ;    or,  bavins: 

districts,  .  .  '  '  O 

registered  in  one  district,  shall  fraudulently  attempt  or 
offer  to  register  in  another  ;  or  shall  fraudulently  regis- 

S^n^othav  ter,  or  attempt  or  offer  to  register,  in  any  election  dis- 
trict not  having  a  lawful  right  to  register  therein  ;  or 
shall  knowingly  or  wilfully  do  any  unlawful  act  to  se- 
cure registration  for  himself  or  any  other  person ;  or 
shall  knowingly,  wilfully,  or  fraudulently,  by  false  per- 
sonation or  otherwise,  or  by  any  unlawful  means  cause 

cnre?e£?ete!i  or  proeurC,  QP  attempt  to  cause  or  procure,  the  name  of 
any  qualified  voter  in  any  election  district  to  be  erased 
or  stricken  from  any  registry  of  the  voters  of  such  dis- 
trict, made  in  pursuance  of  this  act,  or  otherwise  than 
as  is  in  this  act  provided  ;  or  by  force,  threat,  menace, 
intimidation,    bribery,    reward,    or    offer,    or  promise 

or  hinder,  or  rie-  thereof,  or  other  unlawful  means,  prevent,  hinder,  or 

lay  persons  h:w-  7  7   1  7  ' 

etc. .'cu??1 11Rht'  delay  any  person  having  a  lawful  right  to  register  or 
be  registered,  from  duly  exercising  such  right;  or  who 
shall  knowingly,  wilfully,  or  fraudulently  compel  or 
induce,  or  attempt  or  offer  to  compel  or  induce,  by  such 
means,  or  any  unlawful  means,  any  inspector  of  elec- 
tion or  other  officer  of  registration,  in  any  election  dis- 
trict, to  register  or  admit  to  registration  any  person 
not  lawfully  entitled  to  registration  in  such  district,  or 
to  register  any  false,  assumed,  or  fictitious  name,  or 
any  name  of  any  person,  except  as  provided  in  this 
w  interfere  with  act  \  OP  shall  knowingly  or  wil  full  v  or  fraudulently  in- 
eta,«tcn°noeta'   terfere  with,  hinder,  or  delay  any  inspector  of  election 


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or  other  officer  of  registration  in  the  discharge  of  his 
duties,  or  counsel,  advise,  or  induce,  or  attempt  to  in- 
duce, any  such  inspector  or  other  officer  to  refuse  or 
neglect  to  comply  with  or  to  perform  his  duties,  or  to 
violate  any  law  prescribing  or  regulating  the  same;  or 
shall  aid,  counsel,  procure,  or  advise  any  voter,  person, 
inspector  of  election,  or  other  officer  of  registration,  to 
do  an  act  hy  law  forbidden,  or  in  this  act  constituted 
an  offence,  or  to  omit  to  do  any  act  by  law  directed  to 
be  done,  every  such  person  shall,  upon  conviction 
thereof,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  felony,  and  shall  be  isafeiony. 
punished  by  imprisonment  in  a  state  prison  not  less  than  How  punished, 
one  nor  more  than  five  years. 

Sec.  G5.  If,  at  any  election  hereafter  held  in  the  city  certain actsat 

,     *    ,  ■  elections. 

and  county  of  iS'ew  York,  any  person  sh  ill  falsely  per- 
sonate any  elector  or  other  persons,  and  vote,  or  attempt 
or  offer  to  vote  in  or  upon  the  name  of  such  elector  or 
other  person  ;  or  shall  vote  or  attempt  to  vote  in  or 
upon  the  name  of  any  other  person  whether  living  or 
dead,  or  in  or  upon  any  false,  assumed,  or  fictitious 
name,  or  in  or  upon  any  name  not  his  own  ;  or  shall 
knowingly,  wilfully,  or  fraudulently  vote  more  than 
once  for  any  candidate  for  the  same  office,  except  as 
authorized  by  law,  or  shall  vote  or  a! tempt  or  offer  to 
vote  in  any  election  district  without  having  a  lawful 
right  to  vote  therein,  or  vote  more  than  once,  or  vote 
in  more  than  one  election  district,  or  having  once  voted, 
shall  vote,  or  attempt,  or  offer  to  vote  again  ;  or  shall 
knowingl}',  wilfully,  or  fraudulently  do  any  unlawful 
act  to  secure  a  right,  or  an  opportunity  to  vote  for  him- 
self or  for  any  other  person,  or  shall  by  force,  threat, 
menace,  intimidation,  bribery,  or  reward,  or  offer,  or 
promise  thereof,  or  otherwise  unlawfully,  either  directly 
or  indirectly,  influence,  or  attempt  to  influence,  any 
elector  in  giving  his  vote,  or  prevent  or  hinder,  or  at- 
tempt to  prevent  or  hinder,  any  qualified  voter  from 
freely  exercising  the  rights  of  suffrage,  or  by  any  such 
means  induce,  or  attempt  to  induce,  any  such  voter  to 
refuse  to  exercise  any  such  rights ;  or  shall,  by  any  such 
means,  or  otherwise,  compel  or  induce,  or  attempt  to 
compel  or  induce,  any  inspector  of  election  or  other 


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Declared  to  be 
felonies. 

How  punished. 


officer  of  election,  in  any  election  district,  to  receive 
the  vote  of  any  person  not  legally  qualified  or  entitled 
to  vote  at  the  said  election  in  such  district ;  or  shall 
knowingly,  wilfully,  or  fraudulently  interfere  with,  de- 
lay, or  hinder  in  any  manner  any  inspector  of  election, 
poll-clerk,  or  other  officer  of  election,  in  the  discharge 
of  his  duties ;  or  by  any  of  such  means,  or  other  unlaw- 
ful means,  knowingly,  wilfully,  or  fraudulently,  counsel, 
advise,  induce,  or  attempt  to  induce,  any  inspector  of 
election,  poll-clerk,  or  other  officer  of  election,  whose 
duty  it  is  to  ascertain,  proclaim,  announce,  or  declare 
the  result  of  any  such  election,  or  to  give  or  make  any 
certificate,  document,  report,  return,  or  other  evidence 
in  relation  thereto,  to  refuse  or  neglect  to  comply  with 
his  duty,  or  to  violate  any  law  regulating  the  same,  or 
to  receive  the  vote  of  any  person,  in  any  election  dis- 
trict, not  entitled  to  vote  thereiu,  or  to  refuse  to  re- 
ceive the  vote  of  any  person  entitled  to  vote  therein ; 
or  shall  aid,  counsel,  advise,  procure,  or  assist  any 
voter,  person,  or  inspector  of  election,  or  other  officer 
of  election,  to  do  any  act  by  law  forbidden,  or  in  this  act 
constituted  an  offence,  or  to  omit  to  do  any  act  by 
law  directed  to  be  done  ;  every  such  person  shall,  upon 
conviction  thereof,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  felony,  and 
shall  be  punished  for  each  and  such  every  offence  by  im- 
prisonment in  a  state  prison  for  not  less  than  one  nor 
more  than  five  years. 


Certain  acts  by 
poll-clerfcs 


Declared  to  be 
felonies. 


How  punished. 


Sec.  66.  If  any  poll-clerk,  or  any  inspector  of  elec- 
tion, performing  the  duties  of  poll-clerk,  shall  wil- 
fully keep  a  false  poll-list,  or  shall  knowingly  insert  in 
his  poll-list  any  false  statement,  or  any  name  or  state- 
ment, or  any  check,  letter,  or  mark,  except  as  in  this 
act  provided,  he  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  ad 
judged  guilty  of  a  felony,  and  shall  be  punished  by 
imprisonment  in  a  state  prison  for  not  less  than  one  nor 
more  than  five  years. 


Certain  acts  of 
inspectors 


Sec.  67.  Every  inspector  of  election  who  shall  wil- 
fully exclude  any  vote  duly  tendered,  knowing  that  the 
person  offering  the  same  is  lawfully  entitled  to  vote 
at  such  election,  or  shall  wilfully  receive  a  vote  from 


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any  person  who  has  been  duly  challenged,  in  relation 
to  his  right  to  vote  at  such  election,  without  exacting 
from  such  person  such  oath  or  other  proof  of  quali- 
fication as  may  be  required  by  law,  or  who  shall  wil- 
fully omit  to  challenge  any  person  offering  to  vote, 
whom  he  knows  or  suspects  not  to  be  entitled  to  vote? 
and  who  has  not  been  challenged  by  any  other  person, 
shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  declared  felonies, 
felony,  and  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  a  how  punished, 
state  prison  for  not  more  than  too  years. 

Sec.  68.  Everv  inspector  of  election,  member  of  any  Certain  acts  of 

any  officer  o 

board  of   canvassers,    messengers,  poll-clerk,  or   other  blerCSToard^oefm" 
officer  authorized  to  take  part  in  or  perform  any  duty  canvassers 
in  relation  to  any  canvass  or  official  statement  of  the 
votes  cast  at  any  election,  who  shall  wilfully  make  any 
false  canvass  of  such  votes,  or  who  shall  make,  sign, 
publish  or  deliver  any  false  return  of  such  election,  or 
any  false  certificate  or  statement  of  the  result  of  such 
election,  knowing  the  same  to  be  false,  or  who  shall 
wilfully  deface,  destroy,  or  conceal  any  statement  or 
certificate  intrusted  to   his  care  or  custody,  shall,  on 
conviction  thereof,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  felony,  and  declared  felonies, 
shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  a  stat  e  prison  How  punished, 
not  less  than  two  nor  more  than  five  vears. 


Sec.  69.  If  any  person,  other  than  an  inspector  of  g£2ngbaUot 
election,  shall  at  any  such  election,  knowingly  or 
wilfully  put,  or  cause  to  be  put,  any  ballot  or  ballots, 
or  other  paper  having  the  semblance  thereof,  into  any 
box  used  at  such  election  for  the  reception  of  votes ; 
or  if  any  such  inspector  shall  knowingly  and  wilfully 
cause  or  permit  any  ballots  to  be  in  said  box  at  the  open- 
ing of  the  polls  and  before  voting  shall  have  commenced ; 
or  shall  knowingly  and  wilfully,  or  fraudulently  put  any 
ballot  or  other  paper  having  the  semblance  thereof 
into  any  such  box  at  any  such  election,  unless  the  same  « 
shall  be  offered  by  an  elector,  and  his  name  shall  have 
been  found  and  checked  upon  the  register,  as  herein- 
before provided ;  or  if  any  such  inspector,  or  other 
officer  or  person,  shall  fraudulently,  during  the  canvass 
of  ballots,  in  any  manner  change,  substitute,  or  alter  changing  ballots, 


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removing  from  or  ,.nmA.  n 
adding  ballots  to  lClllONC 
b  illot-l>o\  de 


any  ballot  taken  from  the  box  then  being  canvassed,  or 
from  any  box  which  has  not  been  canvassed,  or  shall 
any  ballot,  or  semblance  thereof,  or  add 
cured  felonies,  any  ballot,  or  semblance  thereof,  to  the  ballots  taken 
from  the  box  then  being  canvassed,  or  from  any  box 
which  has  not  been  canvassed,  every  snch  person  shall, 
upon  conviction  thereof,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  felony, 
Howpunished.  and  sliall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  a  state  prison 
for  not  less  than  one  nor  more  than  five  years. 


Fraudulent,  cor- 
rupt and  wilful 
negl«<ct  of  duty 
on  part 


of  el  potion  offi- 
cers declared  a 
felony. 


How  punished. 


Sec.  70.  If  any  inspector  of  election,  poll-clerk,  or 
other  officer  of  registration,  revision,  election,  or  can-, 
vass,  in  whom  any  duty  is  required  in  this  act,  or  by 
the  general  election  laws  of  this  state,  so  far  as  the 
same  are  consistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
shall  be  guilty  of  any  wilful  neglect  of  such  duty,  or  of 
any  corrupt  or  fraudulent  conduct  or  practice  in  the 
execution  of  the  same,  he  shall,  on  conviction  thereof, 
be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  felony,  and  shall  be  punished  by 
imprisonment  in  a  state  prison  for  not  Jess  than  one  nor 
more  than  five  years. 


Arts  by  election 
officers. 


stea^ng.  destroy- 
iiilt.  mutilating, 
removing,  secret- 
ing, or  altering, 


erasing,  or  per- 
mitting others 
t>>  do  so,  de- 
clared felonious. 


How  punished. 


Sec.  71.  Every  inspector  of  election,  poll-clerk,  or 
other  officer  or  person  having  the  custody  of  any  rec- 
ord, register  of  votes,  or  copy  thereof,  oath,  return  of 
votes,  certificate,  poll-list,  of  any  paper,  document, 
or  evidence  of  any  description,  in  this  act  directed  to 
be  made,  filed,  or  preserved,  who  is  guilty  of  stealing, 
wilfully  destroying,  mutilating,  defacing,  falsifying,  or 
fraudulently  removing  or  secreting  the  whole  or  any 
part  thereof,  or  who  shall  fraudulently  malic  any  entry, 
erasure,  or  alteration  therein,  except  as  allowed  and 
directed  by  the  provisions  of  this  act,  or  who  permits 
any  other  person  so  to  do,  shall,  upon  conviction  there- 
of, be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  felon}',  and  shall  be  punished 
for  each  and  every  such  offence  by  imprisonment  in  a 
state  prison,  not  exceeding  rive  years,  and  shall,  in 
addition  thereto,  forfeit  his  office. 


.Same  nctn  hy 
pcr-oMs  not 
officers, 


Skc.  72.  Every  person  not  an  officer,  such  as  is 
mentioned  in  the  last  preceding  section,  who  is  guilty 
of  any  of  the  acts  specified  in  said  section,  or  who  ad- 


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vises,  procures,  or  abets  the  commission  of  the  same, 
or  an)T  of  them,  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  ad- 
judged guilty  of  a  felony,  and  for  each  and  every  such  declared  felonies, 
offence  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  a  state  how  punched, 
prison,  not  exceeding  five  years. 

Sec.  73.  Any  person  who  shall  be  convicted  of  wil-  False  swearing 
fill  and  corrupt  false  swearing,  or  affirming,  in  taking 
any  oath  or  affirmation  prescribed  by,  or  upon  any  ex- 
amination provided  for,  in  this  act,  or  upon  being  chal-  undcrttnsact 
lenged  as  unqualified  upon  offering  to  register,  or  vote, 
shail  be   adjudged  guilty  of  wilful  and   corrupt  per-  declared  perjury, 
jury. 

Sec.  74.  Every  person  who  shall  wilfully  and  cor-  inheriting  or 

*     1  *  procuring 

ruptly  instigate,  advise,  induce,  or  procure  any  person  ^Sa&SS' 

to  swear  or  affirm  falsely,  as  aforesaid,  or  attempt  or 

offer  so  to  do,  shall  be  adjudged  guilty  of  subornation 

of  perjury,  and  shall,  upon  conviction   thereof,  suffer 

the  punishment  directed  by  law  in  cases  of  wilful  and  ^J-J**"1 

corrupt  perjury. 

Sec.  75.  If  any  person  shall  fraudulently  change  or  Acts  tending  to 
alter  the  ballot  of  any  elector,  or  substitute  one  ballot  ofhfevote, 
for  another,  or  fraudulently  furnish  any  elector  with  a 
ballot  containing   more    than   the   proper   number  of 
names,  or  shall  intentionally  practice  any  fraud  upon 
any  elector  to  induce  him  to  deposit  a  ballot  as  his 
vote,  and  to  have  the  same  thrown  out  and  not  conn  fe- 
ed, or  to  have  the  same  counted  for  a  person  or  candi- 
date other  than  the  person  or  candidate  for  whom  such 
elector  intended  to  vote,  or  otherwise  defraud  him  of  his 
vote  ;  every  such  person  shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  be 
adjudged  guilty  of  a  felon}',  and  shall,  if  an  inspector  of  declared feicnks 
election,  poll-clerk,  or  other  officer  of  election,  be  pun- 
ished with   imprisonment   in  a   state  prison    not   less  How  punished, 
than  two  nor  more  than  five  years,  and  if  not,  such  in-  if aneiection 

nil  i  "rt-  r i       •  ,    ,i officer,  if  not. 

specter,  poll-clerk,  or  other  ollicer  or  election,  shall  be 
punished  by  imprisonment  in  a  state  prison  for  not  less 
than  one  nor  more  than  five  years. 


Sec,  70.  If   any  person  who  shall  have   been  con- 


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Convicted 
felons  offering 
to  vote  unless 
pardoned 


guilty  of  felony, 
flow  punished. 


victed  of  bribery,  felony,  or  other  infamous  crime  under 
the  laws  of  this  state,  shall  thereafter  vote  or  offer  to 
vote  at  any  election  in  the  city  and  county  of  New 
York,  without  having  been  pardoned  and  restored  to 
all  the  rights  of  a  citizen,  he  shall,  upon  conviction 
thereof,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  felony,  and  for  each 
and  every  such  offence,  shall  be  punished  by  imprison- 
ment in  a  state  prison  for  not  less  than  one  nor  more 
than  three  years. 


Disobeying  any 
lawful  com- 
mand of  board 
or  inspector 


declared  a  mis- 
demeanor. 


How  punished. 


Sec.  77.  If  any  person  shall  wilfully  disobey  any 
lawful  command  of  an  inspector  of  election,  or  of  any 
board  of  inspectors  of  election,  given  in  the  execution 
of  his  or  their  duty  as  such,  at  any  election,  he  shall, 
upon  conviction  thereof,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor, and  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in 
a  penitentiary  for  not  less  than  thirty  days  nor  more 
than  one  year,  or  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  nor  more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  or  by 
both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 


certain  dis-  Sec.  78.  If.  at  any  general  registration  of  voters  or 

orderly  acts  at  J    »  o 

?mrion°andgls"  revision  thereof,  or  on  any  day  of  election,  or  during 
the  canvass  of  the  votes  cast  thereat,  any  person  shall 
cause  any  breach  of  the  peace,  or  use  any  disorderly 
violence,  or  threats  of  violence,  whereby  any  such  reg- 

poiis  of  election  istratiou,  revision,  election,  or  canvass  shall  be  impeded 
or  hindered,  or  whereby  the  lawful  proceedings  of  any 
inspector  of  election,  or  board  of  inspectors  of  elec- 
tion, or  poll-clerk,  or  other  officer  of  such  election,  or 
challenger,  or  person  designated  to  be  present  at  the 
canvass,  of  any  ballots,  as  hereinbefore  provided,  are 
interfered  with,  every  such  person  shall,  upon  convic- 

deciarci felonies,  tion  thereof,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  felony,  and  upon 
conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished   by  imprisonment 

now  punished,  in  a  state  prison  for  not  less  than  one  nor  more  than 
five  years. 


Acts  Of  inter 
f erencc  with 


Sec.  79.  If   any  person   knowingly  or  wilfully  ob- 
ciection officers,   gtruc^  hinder,   assault,  or  by   bribery,  solicitation,  or 
otherwise,  interfere  with  any  inspector  of  election,  poll- 
clerk,  challenger,  or  person  designated  as  provided  in 


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this  act,  to  be  present  at  the  canvass  of  any  ballots,  in 
the  performance  of  any  duty  required  of  him,  or  which  $!iu?y0rmance 
he  may  by  law  be  authorized  or  permitted  to  perform ; 
or  if  any  person,  by  any  of  the  means  before  men- 
tioned, or  otherwise  unlawfully,  shall,  on  the  day  of 
registration,   revision   of  registration,    or   of   election,  at  the  election, 
hinder  or  prevent  any  inspector  of  election,  poll-clerk, 
challenger,  or  any  person   designated,  as  provided  in 
this  act,  to  be  present  at  the  canvass  of  ballots  in  his  vass  of  votes, 
free  attendance  and  presence  at  the  place  of  registra- 
tion, or  of  election  in  the  election  district,  in  and  for 
which  he  is  appointed  or  designated  to  serve,  or  in  his 
full  and  free  access  and  egress,  to  and  from  any  such 
place  of  registration,  revision  of  registration,  or  of  elec-  fromTifch  or 
tion ;  or  to  and  from  any  room  where  any  such  regis-  duties' 
tration,  revision  of  registration,  or  election  or  canvass 
of  votes,  or  of  making  any  returns  or  certificates  there- 
of, may  be  had,  or  shall  molest,  interfere  with,  remove, 
or  eject  from  any  such  place  of  registration,  or  poll  of 
election,  or  of  canvassing  ballots   cast   thereat,  or  of 
making  returns  or   certificates   thereof,   any  such  in- 
spector of  election,   poll-clerk,   challenger,   or  person 
designated  as  provided  in  this  act,  to  watcli  the  can- 
vass of  any  ballots,  save  as  otherwise  provided  in  this 
act,  or  shall  unlawfully  threaten,  or  attempt,  or  offer  °£tempt^or 
so  to  do,  every  such  person  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misde-  alSellforf3" 
meanor,  and  on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished 
by  imprisonment  in  a  penitentiary  for  not  less  than  six 
months  nor  more  than  one  year,  or  shall  be  fined  not 
less  than  five  hundred  nor  more  than  two  thousand  dollars,  How  p™1181"^- 
or  both. 

Sec.  80.  Any  inspector  of   election,  who   shall  wil-  J^S^ST* 
fully  neglect,  or  when  called  on,  shall  wilfully  decline  Sector? 
to  exercise  the  powers  conferred  on  him  in  this  act, 
for  any  of  the  purposes  set  forth  in  section  nineteen  of 
this  act,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  dlmefnor.^" 
on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment 
in  a  penitentiary  for  not  less  than  thirty  days,  nor  more 
than  one  year,  or  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  two  hundred 
and  fifty,  nor  more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  or  by  both  How  pushed, 
such  fine  and  imprisonment. 


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Stalling  or  de- 
stroying, 


secreting  or  re- 
moving 


hnllot-boxes  or 
ballots,  poll- 
lists,  report,  re- 
turn, certificate, 
etc., 


declared  a 
felony. 

How  punished. 


Sec.  81.  If  any  person  shall,  upon  the  day  of  any 
such  election,  or  before  the  canvass  of  votes  is  com- 
pleted, steal,  or  wilfully  break  or  destroy  any  ballot- 
box  used,  or  intended  to  be  used,  at  such  election,  or 
shall  wilfully  or  fraudulently  conceal,  secrete,  or  re- 
move any  such  box  from  the  custody  of  the  inspectors 
of  election,  or  shall  alter,  deface,  injure,  destroy,  or 
conceal  any  ballot  which  lias  been  deposited  in  any 
ballot-box  at  such  election,  which  has  not  been  already 
counted  and  canvassed,  or  any  poll-list  used,  or  in- 
tended to  be  used  at  such  election,  or  any  report,  re- 
turn, certificate,  or  other  evidence  in  this  act  required^ 
as  provided  for,  shall  on  conviction  thereof,  be  adjudged 
guilty  of  a  felony,  and  shall,  for  each  and  every  such 
offence,  be  punished  by  imprisonment  hi  a  state  prison,  for 
not  less  than  two  nor  more  than  five  years. 


Inspectors  and 
pjli-Oerks  ad- 
mitting persons 
to  registration 


wilfully  rjid 
mi  lawfully, 


guilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor. 


How  punished. 


Ahscnrc  from 
duty,  except 
from  urgent 
necessity, 


a  misdemeanor. 
How  punished. 


Sec.  82.  If  in  any  election  district,  at  any  general 
registration  of  voters  or  revision  thereof,  or  at  any 
election  hereafter  held  in'  the  city  and  county  of  New 
York,  any  inspector  of  election  or  poll-clerk  shall 
knowingly  or  wilfully  admit  any  person  to  registrar 
tion,  or  make  any  entry  upon  any  register  of  voters  or 
poll-book,  or  receive  any  vote,  or  proceed  with  the 
canvass  of  ballots,  or  shall  consent  thereto,  unless  a 
majority  of  all  the  inspectors  of  election,  in  said  elec- 
tion district,  are  present  and  concur,  he  shall,  upon 
conviction  thereof,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  misdemean- 
or, and  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the 
county  jail  not  less  than  thirty  nor  more  than  sixty 
days,  or  fined  not  less  than  one  hundred  nor  more  than 
one  thousand  dollars,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  impris- 
onment. If  any  inspector  of  election  in  any  election 
district  shall,  without  urgent  necessity,  absent  himself 
from  the  place  of  registration  or  the  polls  in  said  dis- 
trict, upon  any  day  of  registration,  or  election,  where- 
by less  than  a  majority  of  all  the  inspectors  in  such 
election  district  shall  be  present  during  the  hours  of  re- 
gistration, election,  or  canvass  of  ballots,  he  shall,  upon 
conviction,  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and 
shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail 
not  less  than  sixty  days,  nor  more  than  Lsix  months,  or 


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shall  be  fined  not  less  than  five  hundred  nor  more  than 
one  thousand  dollars,  or  both. 


Sec.  83.  It  is  hereby  made  the  especial  duty  of  the  District  attor- 

,..  f»i  r  Ari  ■  -i  •    nov  to  prose- 

distnct  attorney  or  the  county  01  JSew  lork  to  immedi-  %j*j^gm" 
ately  prosecute  all  complaints  which  may  be  made  of  a  viola- 
tion of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  or  of  the  election 
laws  of  the  state,  to  final  iudo-inent;  and  the  court  before  ™iationHof 

J      ~  7  this  net  to  fina 

which  any  conviction  for  such  violation  shall  be  had  shall  judKraent- 
not,  in  any  case,  suspend  sentence  or  judgment  for  more  judgment  not 
than  ten  days:  but  no  indictment  for  such  violation  shall  more thanio e< 

J  ...  days. 

be  brought  to  trial  unless  the  complainant  (if  any),  if  he 
can  be  found,  shall  have  at  least  two  days'  notice,  in 
writing,  from  the  said  district  attorney,  of  the  day  when 
he  intends  to  try  the  same. 


Sec.  84.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  inspector  of  Keeping bauots, 

"  1  electioneering, 

election,  poll-clerk,  challenger,  or  person  designated  as  t£kedts1ntoun* 
provided  in  this  act  to  be  present  at  the  canvass  of  mg-Place8' 
any  ballots  in  any  district,  during  the  election  or  can- 
vass of  ballots,  to  have  or  keep  any  ballots  behind  the 
-  boxes  or  within  the  polling-place,  or  for  them  or  any 
person  or  persons  within  the  polling-place,  to  elec- 
tioneer, distribute  tickets  or  ballots,  or  engage  in  any 
political  discussion.  Any  violation  of  this  section  shall 
be  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall  be  punished  bv  imprison-  declared  a  mi* 

.  1  "  A  demeanor. 

ment  in  the  county   jail   for   not   less  than   ten  nor 

more  than  ninety  days,  or  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  How  p1""81^- 

one  hundred  nor  more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  or 

both. 


Sec.  85  Whoever,  during  the  sitting  of  any  board 
of  inspectors  of  election  in  any  election  district  in  the 
city  and  county  of  New  York,  whether  held  for  the 
purposes  of  registration,  revision  of  registration,  re- 
ception or  canvass  of  votes,  or  of  making  return  thereof, 
shall  bring,  take,  order,  or  send  into,  or  shall  cause  to 
be  taken,  brought,  ordered,  or  sent  into,  or  shall  at- 
tempt to  bring,  take,  or  send  into  any  place  of  regis- 
tration or  revision  of  registration  or  of  election,  any  JjSEjBbSS? 
distilled  or  spirituous  liquors  whatever,  or  shall  at  pEgs-Pikces. 
4 


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declared  a  mis- 


any  such  time  and  place  drink  or  partake  of  any  such 
liquor,  shall  be  deemed,  and  held  to  be  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor. 


irregularities  in      Sec.  86.  Irregularities  or  defects  in  the  mode  of  notic- 

holding  elee-  ° 

tions.  jUg?  convening,  holding,  or  conducting  an  election,  author- 

ized by  law,  shall  constitute  no  defence  to  a  prosecution 
for  a  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  act. 


Effect  ot  certain 


Sec.  87.  Every  act  which,  by  the  provisions  of  this 
act  or  the  general  election  laws,  is  made  criminal  when 
committed  with  reference  to  the  election  of  a  candidate, 
is  equally  criminal  when  committed  with  reference  to  the 
determi nation  of  a  question  submitted  to  electors  to  be 
decided  by  votes  cast  at  an  election. 


New  rule  of 
evidence. 


Sec.  88.  Upon  any  prosecution  for  procuring,  offering, 
or  casting  an  illegal  vote,  the  accused  may  give  in  evidence 
any  fact  tending  to  show  that  he  honestly  believed,  upon 
good  reason,  that  the  vote  complained  of  was  a  lawful 
one,  and  the  jury  may  take  such  facts  into  consideration 
in  determining  whether  the  acts  complained  of  were 
wilfully  done  or  not. 


Meaning  of 
word  election 
as  used  in  this 
act. 


Sec.  89.  The  word  election,  as  used  in  this  act,  shall  be 
construed  to  designate  only  elections  had  within  the  city 
and  county  of  New  York,  for  the  purposes  of  enabling 
electors  to  choose  some  public  officer  or  officers,  under  the 
laws  of  this  state  or  the  United  States,  or  to  pass  upon 
any  amendment,  law,  or  other  public  act  or  proposition 
submitted  to  vote  by  law. 


Boundaries  of 

election  dis- 
tricts to  Le  ad- 
vertised . 


When. 


All  places  of 
registration  ami 
polling-places. 


Ofllcial  canvass 


Sec.  90.  {Amended  by  chaj).  823  of  the  laws  r>/*1873, 
bo  as  to  read  as  follows ;]  The  boundaries  of  all  election 
districts,  and  the  location  of  all  places  of  registration, 
revision  of  registration,  or  polling-places  shall  be  publicly 
advertised  on  the  day  preceding  the  first  day  of  any 
general  registration  or  revision  of  registration,  and  on 
each  day  of  registration,  revision  of  registration  or  day  of 
election,  and  on  such  day  or  days  only.  The  official 
canvass,  immediately  npon  its  completion  and  declaration 


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by  the  board  of  county  canvass,  shall  be  publicly  adver- to  be  advertised, 
tised  for  one  day  only.    All  advertising  provided  for  in  A^t^lany 
this  section  shall  be  done  in  two  daily  newspapers  only,  newgPaPers- 
published  in  the  city  of  New  York,  to  be  designated  by 
the  board  of  police,  and  all  matter  advertised  shall  be 
prepared  and  furnished  the  journals  in  which  it  is  to  be 
inserted,  free  from  unnecessary  verbiage  or  repetition; 
and  in  the  publication  of  any  official  canvass,  all  numbers  Numbers  to  be 

^  J  printed  in  nu- 

shall  be  printed  in  numerals  only,  and  the  statement  ormeralsonly- 
declaration  shall  be  put  in  tabular  form. 

Sec.  91.  The  le^al  compensation  of  all  inspectors  of  Expenses  of 

°  1  1  elections 

election  and  poll-clerks  and  other  officers  of  election, 
the  cost  and  expenses  of  all  necessary  election  notices, 
posters,  maps,  advertisements,  registers,  books,  blanks, 
and  stationery,  the  rent  and  cost  of  fitting  up,  warming, 
iighting,  cleaning,  and  safe-keeping  of  all  places  of  regis- 
tration, revision  of  registration,  and  polling-places,  of 
furnishing,  repairing,  and  carting  ballot-boxes,  and  all 
supplies  of  every  kind  and  nature  for  all  elections 
in  the  city  and  county  of  New  York  shall  be  a  county  to  be  a  county 
charge,  and  shall,  upon  proper  certificates  and  vouchers,  same  manner  as 

~  1  ?     r         x      r  7  other  expenses , 

be  paid  in  the  same  manner  as  by  law  provided  f0rofcounty- 

the  payment  of  other  expenses  of  the  said  county  of 

New  York.    The  board  of  supervisors  of  the  said  county  Board  of  super- 

visors  to  ycjurly 

of  New  York  shall  vearly  levy  upon  the  estates,  real  and  levy  the 

*  J         J      1  amounts  re- 

personal,  of  the  said  city  and  county  of  New  York,  the  ^enl^of y 
amounts  estimated  to  be  required  to  pay  the  expenses  of  electl0USl 
the  registration,  or  revision  of  registration,  and  of  all 
elections  which  may  be  held  in  said  city  and  county 
during  the  year. 


Sec.  92.  The  act  entitled  "  An  act  to  ascertain  by 
proper  proofs  the  citizens  who  shall  be  entitled  to  the 
right  of  suffrage,"  passed  May  thirteenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-five  ;  and  the  act  entitled  "An  act 
amendatory  of  and  supplementary  to  chapter  seven 
hundred  and  forty,  of  the  laws  of  eighteen  hundred 
and  sixty -five,  entitled  i  An  act  to  ascertain  by  proper 
proofs,  the  citizens  who  shall  be  entitled  to  the  rights 
of  suffrage,'  passed  May  thirteenth,  eighteen  hundred 


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and  sixty-live,"  passed  April  twenty-fifth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-six  ;  and  the  act  entitled  "  An  act  in 
relation  to  elections  in  the  city  and  county  of  New 
York,"  passed  April  fifth,  eighteen  hundred  and  seventy ; 

Repealing  ail  d  tli e  act  entitled  "An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled 
'  An  act  in  relation  to  elections  in  the  city  and  county 
of  jNew  York,'  passed  April  fifth,  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy,"  passed  April  eighteen,  eighteen  hundred  and 
seventy-one,  are  hereby  repealed,  and  all  other  acts  or 
parts  of  acts,  so  far  as  the  same  are  inconsistent  with 
the  provisions  of  this  act,  are  hereby  repealed  so  far 
as  they  apply  to  the  city  or  county  of  New  York,  but 

Proviso.  such  repeal  shall  not  revive  any  act  or  part  of  any 
act  repealed  by  either  of  such  laws.  Nothing  in  this 
act  contained  shall  be  construed  to  in  any  manner 
affect  any  complaint,  prosecution,  indictment,  or  other 
criminal  proceeding  now  pending,  or  that  may  hereafter 
be  made,  had,  or  found  under  the  provisions  of  said  acts 
or  either  of  them,  for  any  violation  thereof  which  occurred 
before  the  passage  of  this  act,  but  every  such  violation 
shall  be  punishable  under  the  provisions  of  said  acts  or 
either  of  them,  as  though  said  acts  were  not  repealed  but 
still  in  force. 


Act  to  take  Sec.  03.  This  act  shall  take  effect  as  follows:  Sec- 
effect,  when.        .  ,  •  •  .  _c 

tions  one   to   six,  both  inclusive;  section   thirty -tour, 

sections  thirty-six  to  thirty-nine,  both  inclusive;  sec- 
tion forty-one,  sections  forty  seven  to  fifty-five,  both 
inclusive;  sections  sixty-three  to  eighty-seven,  both 
inclusive,  and  section  ninety,  shall  take  effect  imme- 
diately ;  and  section  ninety  two,  so  far  as  anything 
contained  therein  repeals  acts  or  parts  of  acts  inconsistent 
with  the  provisions  of  the  above-named  sections,  shall  take 
effect  immediately.  Each  and  every  section  not  herein- 
above specified,  and  section  ninety -two,  where  not  herein- 
above otherwise  provided,  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day 
of  June  in  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
seventy- two. 


INDEX. 


Appointments  of  Inspectors  

poil-clerks  

when  made  and  by  whom 
manner  of  


Assembly,  Members  of— 

ballot-box,  how  marked  and  numbered 

on  what  ballot  , 

how  folded  and  indorsed  


Aldermen  elected  by  senate  districts — 

ballot  for,  how  folded  and  indorsed. 


Applicants  for  registration  or  offering  to  vote — 

may  be  challenged    

by  whom  and  when  

oaths  to  be  administered  in  certain  cases  

to  personally  apply  to  have  names  registered  

names  to  be  entered  of  tho^e  who  on  next  election  would  be  en- 
titled to  vote  in  the  district  ...   

in  case  of  removal  into  the  election  district  since  last  day  of 
general  registration  

conditions  to  be  complied  with  

certificate  of  removal  to  be  presented  

change  of  residence,  during  the  general  registration  or  revision 
of  registration,  what  to  be  done  


Assembly  Districts,  when  to  be  divided  into  election  districts , 

Additional  Record  of  Deaths — 

when  to  be  made,  what  to  contain,  and  when  to  be  filed .  , 


B. 

Bills  of  Exchange,  Bank  Checks,  etc  

Ballot-boxes,  how  marked  and  numbered. . . . 

how  furnished.  

stuffing  

stealing,  etc.,  of    

distributing,  etc  

Ballots  (contents)  for  electors  of  u  President 

"  Vice-President"  , 

"  Representative  in  Congress"  

'*  Senator"  

"  Member  of  Assembly"  

"  Aldermen  elected  by  Senate  districts", 
"  Civil  Justice"  


13 
13 
13 
13 


14 
14 
14 
21 

22 

22 
22 
22 

21 


31 


69 
81 
84 

4 
4 
4 
4 
4 


54 


Ballots  (continued) — 

kk  Officers"  (except  as  hereinbefore  mentioned). 

how  folded  and  indorsed   

how  deposited  

remaining  ballots  to  be  destroyed  

changing  ballots,  etc  , 


Ballots  (separate).    See  Separate  Ballot. 


Bureau  of  Elections — 

how  organized  and  by  whom  

chief  of  bureau  to  be  appointed  by  board  of  police  

term  of  office — salary  

how  fixed  —  how  removed  

former  bureau  of  elections  to  turn  over  all  documents,  etc. 
former  laws  repealed  and  old  bureau  abolished  


Board  of  Police — 

to  establish  a  bureau  of  elections  

bureau  subject  to  rules  and  regulations  of  

to  appoint  a  chief  of  bureau  

fix  salary — and  may  remove  for  cause  

shall  cause  to  be  prepared  books  for  registration  of  names,  etc 

when  and  how  the  assembly  districts  shall  be  divided  

shall  not  alter  or  change  number  or  boundaries  

when  to  re-district  into  election  districts  

shall  select  and  appoint  inspectors  and  poll-clerks  

remove  and  transfer  

fill  vacancies  

shall  select  four  persons  for  each  election  district,  two  of  each 

party  

designate  and  appoint  places  of  registry  and  polling-places. . . 


Board  of  Supervisors — 

shall  be  the  board  of  county  canvassers, 
duty  of  


Boundaries — 

of  election  districts  to  be  arranged  by  the  board  of  police, 
to  be  advertised — when  and  how  


C. 

Chief  of  Bureau  of  Elections — 

by  whom  appointed  

term  of  office  , 

salary,  how  fixed  and  paid  

how  removed  

duties  of — keep  records  

furnish  books  and  stationery  and  all  needed  supplies. 

to  have  charge  of  fitting  up  polling-places  

to  issue  registers  in  certain  cases  

to  appoint  a  chief  clerk  

salary  of  chief  clerk  

other  clerical  force  

to  qualify  inspectors  and  poll-clerks  

shail  administer  the  oath  prescribed  

to  keep  a  record  of  deatJis  of  voters  

how  names  to  be  arranged  

lists  to  be  sent  to  inspector  

shall  keep  an  "  additional  record  of  deaths  "  

furnish  copy  to  each  inspector  

permit  public  inspection  of  

u        f*  "  data,  register,  etc  


4 
4 
4 

59 
69 


7 
7 
7 
7 
12 
12 


7 
7 
7 
7 

8 
9 
9 
9 
13 
13 
13 

13 
35 


63 
63 


9 

90 


7 
7 

10 
10 
10 
10 

11 
11 
11 

13 
13 
29 
30 
30 
31 
31 
40 
40 


55 


u  Certificate  of  Removal"  from  one  election  district  to  another  

Compensation  of  Inspectors  of  Election  

poll-clerks  

no  payments  in  certain  cases  

Congress,  Representative  in — 

ballot-box,  how  marked  and  numbered  

on  what  ballot  

how  folded  and  indorsed  

Canvass,  how  conducted    

to  commence  at  close  of  poll  

proceeding-  

persons  to  witness  the  canvass  

order  of  boxes  in  cavassing  

process  of  canvassing  

statement  of  canvass,  what  to  contain  

making,  etc. ,  of  a  false  canvass  felonious  

Challengers  to  be  protected  at  place  of  registration,  etc  

Certificate — 

of  general  registration  

of  revision  of  general  registration  

Chief  Clerk— 

chief  of  bureau  to  appoint    

salary  of  

shall  administer  oath  of  qualification  to  inspectors  and  poll-clerks 

Challengers  — 

each  political  party  may  have  challengers  

to  be  protected  by  inspectors  

may  be  removed,  etc  

Certificate  of  Appointment — 

of  inspectors  of  election  

of  poll-clerks  

Clerk  of  Board  of  Supervisors — 

a  statement  of  the  canvass  to  be  filed  with  

Convicted  Felons — 

if  unpardoned  and  attempt  to  vote,  guilty  of  felony  

County  Clerk — 

a  statement  of  the  canvass  to  be  filed  with  

a  copy  of  the  poll-list  to  be  filed  with  

County  Canvassers — 

board  of  supervisors  shall  be  

their  duty  :  

County  Canvass,  how  conducted  

Changing  ballots,  declared  felonious  ,  

D. 

Documents,  maps,  etc. — 

to  be  furnished  by  chief  of  bureau  

of  former  bureau  to  be  transferred  to  new  bureau  


SEC. 

23 

17 
17 
17 


47 
47 
47 
49 
53 
54 
68 

19 


26 
26 


11 
11 

13 


36 
36 
36 


57 


76 


56 
57 


63 
63 

63 

69 


10 
11 


56 


Data,  statistics,  registers,  etc. — 

to  be  open  during  office  hours  for  public  inspection  

Disorderly  persons — 

to  be  excluded  from  polling- places  

Defrauding — 

a  voter  of  his  vote  

a  felony  —punishable  ,  

Disobeying  ordens — 

of  inspectors  declared  a  misdemeanor  

Disorderly  conduct — 

at  the  polls  felonious  

District  A  ttorney — 

to  prosecute  all  complaints  

Distributing  Bal'ots — 

in  the  polling-place  a  felony  

E. 

Election  days  {legal  Jwlidays)  

Elections— 

how  conducted  

special,  how  conducted  

Election  Districts — 

each  election  district  to  contain  250  voters  

number  and  boundaries  not  to  be  changed  

when  to  re-district  the  city  

boundaries  to  be  advertised  

Electors  of  President,  etc. — 

ballot-boxes  for  

ballots  for  

Excused  from  Service — 

persons  selected  and  notified  of  appointment  as  inspectors  bound 
to  serve  unless  excused  by  Board  of  Police  

"  Election  Bureau  copy"  of  Register — 

what  shall  be  known  as  

what  to  contain  

when  and  where  to  be  filed  ,  

Election  District  Offims — 

inspectors  and  poll-clerks  are  

have  power  to  canvass  their  district  within  a  certain  period  

neglect  of  duty,  how  punished  

certain  acts  felonious  

Evidence,  prima  facie  

new  rule  of  

Election — 

meaning  of  word  under  this  act  

Expenses — 

of  election  to  be  a  county  charge  


SEC. 

40 
47 


75 


77 
78 
83 
84 


6 
42 


9 
90 


18 


24 
24 
24 


39 
41 
70 
71 

55 
88 


8!) 
1)1 


57 


F. 

Felony— 

certain  acts  deemed  , 

how  punished  

False  swearing  , 

Fines— 

persons  neglecting  or  refusing  to  serve  as  inspector. 
Form— 

of  ballots  

of  register  

of  oath  of  qualification  to  be  taken  by  inspectors.  .  , 

of  oath  to  witness  test  qualification  of  a  voter  

of  oath  to  be  administered  to  applicants  to  register 

of  kk  oath  of  removal "  

of  '*  certificate  of  removal"  

of  certificate  of  general  registration  , 

of  certificate  of  revision  of  general  registration.  . .  . 
of  poll- lists  of  voters  

G. 

General  Registration  of  Voters- 
days  of  

manner  of  proceeding  

duration  of  each  session  

how  names,  etc.,  are  to  be  entered  

H. 

Holiday,  legal  


Inspectors  of  E'eclimi — 

how  chosen  and  appointed,  and  when  

transfers  and  removals  to  be  made  by  the  board  of  police.  . .  . 
vacancies  and  removals  to  be  filled  "  "  .... 

number  of  

political  faith  of  

qualifications  , 

manner  and  time  of  appointment  

oath  of  office,  form  of .  .  

certificate  of  appointment  

term  of  office  

removal  from  office  

unexpired  term  

no  inspector  or  poll-clerk  to  be  transferred  except  

compensation  of  .1 

how  certified  and  paid  , 

no  payment  in  certain  cases  

if  not  qualified  a  misdemeanor  to  act  

exempt  from  military  and  jury  duty  

when  to  qualify  

bound  to  serve  unless  excused  

penalty  for  not  serving  , 

what  deemed  a  refusal  , 

to  preserve  order  

to  suppress  riots  

to  protect  voters  and  challengers  

may  deputize  persons  to  assist  , 


64 
64 

73 
18 


13 
14 
21 

23 
23 
26 
26 
46 


20 
21 
21 
21 


13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
13 
17 
17 
17 
17 
17 
18 
18 
18 
18 
19 
19 
19 
19 


4 


58 


Inspectors  of  Election  (continued) — 

shall  meet  at  the  times  and  places  designated,  and  a  general 

registration  

how  to  organize  

to  receive  applications  from  persons  who  personally  apply  

shall  remain  in  session  each  day  from  8  A.M.  to  9  p.m  

to  administer  oaths  

form  of  oath  

examine  each  applicant  as  to  his  right  to  be  registered  

enter  the  names  of  applicants  on  the  register  

manner  of  making  entries  

to  meet  for  any  revision  of  any  general  registration  on  days 

designated  

they  shall  perform  their  duties  publicly  

proceeding  in  case  of  revision  of  general  registration  

proceeding  in  case  of  change  of  residence  

making,  certifying,  and  filing  copies  of  registers  

each  inspector  to  return  a  copy  of  register  for  use  on  election- 
day   

the  ' '  public  copy  "  to  be  suspended  at  the  place  of  registration, 
etc  

name  of  person  voting  to  be  announced  in  a  loud  voice  

proceeding  on  election-day  

what  to  be  done  with  the  register  at  the  completion  of  the  can- 
vass   

what  to  be  done  with  register  in  case  of  resignation  

to  be  in  constant  attendance  during  the  time  specified  

have  power  to  canvass  their  district  within  certain  time. ....... 

to  proceed  to  canvass  at  close  of  polls  

certain  acts  deemed  felonies.  

Irregularities  punishable  

lUegal  Registration — 

certain  acts  felonious  

Intemperance  at  the  polls,  or  going  to  or  from  


J. 

Justice  of  DistHct  Court — 

ballot-box,  how  marked  and  numbered 

ballot,  what  to  contain  .'  

how  folded  and  indorsed  


^  L. 

Liquors — 

in  polling-places  declared  misdemeanor. 

Legal  Holidays — 

election-days  are  


Minors  coming  of  age  before  Election-day  

Meeting  days  for  future  General  Registration — 

Tuesday,  four  weeks  preceding  the  day  of  November  election.  .  . 

Wednesday  of  the  third  week  

Friday  and  Saturday  of  the  second  week  

from  8  A. M  to  9  p.m.  each  day  


SE  C.   I  PACE 


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21 

14 

21 

14 

21 

14 

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15 

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15 

22 

16 

22 

16 

22 

16 

OQ 

17 

24 

21 

26 

22 

27 

23 

27 

23 

OQ 

-CO 

OA 

28 

24 

28 

25 

28 

25 

on 

oo 

41 

30 

47 

32 

67 

43 

86 

50 

82 

48 

79 

47 

3 

3 

4 

5 

4 

5 

85 

49 

2 

3 

21 

16 

20 

14 

20 

14 

20 

14 

21 

14 

59 


Meeting  days  for  future  General  Registration  (continued)— 

revision  of  the  general  registration  at  other  elections  

Friday  and  Saturday  of  second  week  preceding  the  day  of  every 
such  election  

Military  and  Jury  duty,  exempt  from — 

inspectors  of  election  

poll-clerks  

Misdemeanor — 

persons  acting  as  inspectors  of  election  or  poll-clerks  without 
being  properly  qualified,  are  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

Monthly  Reports — 

to  be  made  to  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of  election  by  clerks  of 
Courts  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  and  General  and  Special  Sessions 

what  to  contain  

neglect  to  comply  deemed  a  misdemeanor  

N. 

Neglect,  Wilful — 

of  duty  by  election  district  officers    

"       or  refusal  to  perform  duties  

O. 

Officers — 

all  elected  at  general  election,  except  

to  be  voted  for  on  one  ballot  

Oath— 

of  inspectors  of  election  

to  a  witness  as  to  the  qualification  of  challenged  electors  

to  test  the  qualifications  of  applicants  for  registration  

to  be  administered  to  applicants  in  case  of  removal  into  another 
election  district  

Order — 

how  to  keep,  at  place  of  registration,  etc  

Organization — 

of  board  of  inspectors  

Official  Canvass — 

to  be  advertised  •  


P. 

Polls— 

time  of  opening  and  closing  , 

canvass  to  commence  on  the  closing  of.  

Poll- Clerks— 

how  selected  and  appointed  , 

board  of  police  to  make  transfers  and  removals 

"  "        fill  all  vacancies  

number  of  and  political  faith  of  

qualification  , 

to  be  sworn  

term  of  office  

certificate  of  appointment  

vacancies,  how  filled  

compensation  of  

how  paid  , 


60 


Poll- Clerks  (continued) — 

no  payments  to  be  made  in  certain  cases  

a  misdemeanor  to  act  in  certain  cases  

exempt  from  military  and  jury  duty  

shall  keep  poll  lists  in  ink  

shall  keep  tally  at  the  canvass   

shall  subscribe  each  page  of  statement  of  canvass  

certain  acts  felonious  

Pay  of  different  Election  Officers.    (See  Compensation.) 

no  payments  in  certain  cases  

«         u  a 

Police,  Department  of — 

bureau  of  elections  

Penalty- 
it  persons  selected  and  appointed  as  inspectors  refuse  or  neglect 

to  serve  

for  committing  certain  acts  

41  it  (if  1 1 

"  Public  Copy'''  of  Register — 

what  shall  be  known  as  

what  to  contain  

when,  where,  and  how  to  be  suspended  

PoUin  g- Places — 

chief  of  bureau  have  charge  of  fitting  up  

shall  be  designated  by  the  board  of  police    

liquor,  gas,  etc  

entrance  thereto  not  to  be  obstructed  

to  be  advertised  

Proclamation — 

number  of  persons  having  voted  to  be  ascertained  and  pro- 
claimed in  a  loud  voice   

number  of  ballots  in  each  box  to  be  proclaimed  

on  the  completion  of  each  box  

Poll- Lis  Is— 

to  be  kept  in  ink,  by  the  poll-clerks  

what  to  contain  

form  of   

to  be  certified  and  filed  

Prima  Facie  Evidence— 

proclamation  of  result  of  canvass  

Persons  not  Election  Officers — 

guilty  of  felony  in  performing  certain  acts  

Perjury — 

false  swearing  declared  

subornation  of   

Places  of  Registration  and  Election — 

to  be  advertised  

Qualifications—  Q- 

of  inspectors  of  election  ,  

of  pol!-c!erks  

two  inspectors  of  election  to  be  of  different  political  faith  from 

their  associates  

one  poll-clerk  to  be  of  different  political  faith  from  his  associates 


17 
17 
17 
45 

53 
56 
66 


17 


18 
64 

65 

24 
24 
27 


10 

35 
35 
47 
90 


44 

48 
55 

45 
45 
46 
58 


55 


72 


73 
74 


90 


13 
13 

13 
15 


61 


Qualified  Voters — 

may  challenge  and  contest  the  right  to  registrate  or  vote  

R. 

Registration  Books — 

form  of  

to  be  known  by  the  name  of  registers  

to  contain  the  name  of  each  street  or  avenue  in  each  election 

district  

to  contain  the  name  of  all  male  persons  applying  for  registration 

how  ruied  

when  used  

Registration — 

applicants  may  be  challenged  

by  whom   

oath  to  be  administered  

form  of  oath  '  

future  general  registration  

days  of  registration  

for  other  elections  

revision  of  registration  

days  of  

certificate  of  general  registration  

"  revision  of  general  registration  

Registers  of  Voters,  Form  of — 

manner  in  which  the  name  of  applicant  shall  be  entered,  resi- 
dence, etc  

copies  to  be  made  and  filed  

to  be  made  on  days  of  general  registration  

to  be  made  on  revision  of  general  registration  

u  election  bureau  copy,"  what  shall  be  known  as  

"  public  copy,"  what  shall  be  known  as  

checked  registers  to  be  filed  :  

Ref  usal  or  neglect  to  serve  or  act — 

inspectors  of  election  liable  to  a  penalty  

what  deemed  a  refusal    

Removals  of  Inspectors  of  Election — 

manner  of  proceeding  in  cases  of  

proceedings  in  cases  of  change  of  residence  of  applicants  for 

registration  

oath,  form  of  

to  be  filed  

certificate  of  

Record  of  Deaths  of  Voters — 

when  and  how  copies  to  be  made    

to  be  kept  in  bureau  of  ejection  

names  of  deceased  voters  to  be  alphabetically  arranged  

lists  to  be  furnished  the  inspectors  

what  to  be  done  with  the  lists  

Re-Numbering — 

of  any  street,  etc.,  within  a  certain  period  prohibited  

Receipts — 

to  be  given  on  delivery  of  any  statement,  register,  etc. ,  which 

has  been  delivered    

receipt  to  be  filed  with  comptroller  

no  payment  for  services  until  complied  with  

Repealing  Clause  


SEC. 

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8 

8 
8 
8 
8 

14 
14 
14 
14 

20 
20 
20 
20 
20 
26 
26 


21 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
28 


18 
18 


13 

23 
23 
23 
23 


30 
30 
30 
30 
30 

43 


60 
60 
60 

92 


1% 


62 


Revision  of  General  Registration — 

days  of  

duties  to  be  performed  

manner  of  proceeding  


S. 

Separate  Ballot — 

names  of  candidates  for  certain  offices  to  be  on  one  ballot  

contents — how  folded,  indorsed,  and  where  deposited  

names  of  candidates  for  certain  offices  to  be  on  separate  ballots 
contents — how  indorsed,  folded,  and  where  deposited  

Senator,  State— 

ballot-box,  how  marked  and  numbered  

on  what  ballot  

how  folded  and  indorsed  

Special  Election — 

the  manner  of  proceeding  

Statement  op  Canvass — 

what  to  contain  

ballots  to  be  attached  thereto  

triplicates  to  be  made  

contents  of  

how  sealed  and  directed  

how  indorsed  

by  whom,  to  whom,  and  at  what  time  to  be  delivered  

Ballot-Boxes — 

declared  felonious  

Swearin  g  falsely — 

deemed  perjury  

instigating  others  to  swear  falsely  


T. 

Term  of  Office— 

of  inspectors  of  election  

of  poll-clerks  

of  chief  of  bureau  of  elections  

Time — 

to  open  and  close  the  polls  

to  establish  a  bureau  of  elections  

to  divide  the  assembly  districts  into  election  districts  

to  re-district   j,  

to  appoint  inspectors  of  election  and  poll-clerks  

to  qualify  as  inspector  or  poll-clerk  after  notice  of  appointment 

for  the  general  registration  

for  revision  of  the  general  registration  

when  inspectors  shall  meet  

how  long  to  remain  in  session  each  day  

when  to  make  copies  of  registers  

when  copies  to  be  certified  

when  u  election  bureau  copy  "  to  be  filed  

when  public  copy  of  registers  to  be  made  

"  M  filed  

M       u       "  "     should  be  suspended  

when  to  file  the  checked  registers  

when  altering  numbers  of  streets  prohibited  


SEC. 

PAOB 

20 

14 

22 

16 

22 

17 

4 

4 

4 

4 

4 

4 

4 

4 

3 

.  3 

4 

4 

4 

4 

42 

30 

54 

36 

54 

36 

56 

37 

56 

38 

56 

38 

56 

38 

56 

38 

69 

43 

73 

45 

74 

45 

13 

10 

15 

12 

7 

6 

5 

5 

7 

5 

9 

6 

9 

6 

13 

9 

13 

10 

20 

14 

20 

14 

21 

14 

21 

14 

24 

20 

24 

21 

24 

21 

24 

21 

24 

21 

27 

23 

28 

25 

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